88 PENTANDRIA DiGYNiA. Hydrocotyk. 



short-petioled, ovate, pointed, three-nerved, smooth, en- 

 tire ; when young a little downy, about five inches long, 

 and two and a half broad. Stipules filiform, hairy, ca- 

 ducous. Racemes axillary, slender, erect, sometimes 

 compound, but generally simple. The hermaphrodite 

 flowers always above the male. 



Hkrm APHRODITE. Calyx or corol five-leaved; leaflets 

 spreading, oval. Filaments ^ve, spreading, shorter than 

 the pistil. Anthers incumbent. Germ superior, ovate. 

 Styles tvfo, erect. Stigmas simipile. Berry ovscte, size of 

 a cherry, cne-seeded. 



M-AhE flowers on the same raceme, below the herma- 

 phrodite ones. Calyx and stamina as above. Pistil, not 

 the least rudiment of one. 



HYDROCOTYLE. Sckreb. gen. n. 457- 

 Umbel simple. Involucre from two to four-leaved. Pe- 

 fals entire, fruit compressed, gibbous, tvvo-partible. 



1. H. asiatica. Willd. 1. 1362. 



Creeping in shady places. Leaves long-petioled, reni- 

 form, dentate. Umbellets from the joints, two or more to- 

 gether, short-peduncled, three or four-flovvered. Involucre 

 two-four leaved. 



Codagen. Rheed. mat. 10. t. 46. 



Hind. Thwl-kwra. 



It is common in moist shady places over India, and ap- 

 pears with most luxuriance during the rains, when it blos- 

 soms and ripens its seed. 



2. H. rotundifolia. R. 



Filiform, creeping. iea?;e5 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 



