88 PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. Hydrocotyle. 
short-petioled, ovate, pointed, three-nerved, smooth, en- 
tire; when young a little downy, about five inches long, 
and two anda half broad. Stipules filiform, hairy, ca- 
ducous. Racemes axillary, slender, erect, sometimes 
compound, but generally simple. The hermaphrodite 
flowers always above themale. — 
HeRMAPHRODITE, Calyx or corol five-leaved; leaflets 
spreading, oval. Filaments five, spreading, shorter than 
the pistil. Anthers incumbent. Germ superior, ovate. 
Styles two, erect. Stigmas simple. Berry ovate, size of 
a cherry, ene-seeded, 
MALE flowers on the same raceme, below the herma- 
phrodite ones, Calyx and stamina as above.  Pistil, not 
the least rudiment of one. 
H YDROCOTYLE. Schreb. gen. n. 457. 
Umbel simple. Involucre from two to four-leaved. Pe- 
tals entire, Sruit sompngneeds gibbous, emovpactinie 
x ‘HL “pialita: Willd. 1. 1362. 
Creeping in shady places. Leaves line potiaints 3 reni- 
form, dentate. Umbellets from the joints, two or more to- 
gether, short-peduncled, three or four-flowered. Involucre 
two-four-leaved. 
- Codagen. Rheed. mal, 10, t. 46, 
Hind. Thul-kura. . 
It is common in moist shady places over Indie med: ap- 
pears with most luxuriance during the rains, when it blos- 
soms aud ripens its seed, 
2. H. rotundifolia. R. 
Filiform, creeping. Leaves long-petioled, round, lobate, 
crenate, smooth. Umbellets erect, from eight to ten flow-_ 
ered, Involucre of three, four or more minute leaflets. 
A small creeping species, found in wet, cultivated . 
