346 LVI. UMBELLIFERR. [ Hydrocotyle. 
each with about 6 to 10 very small almost sessile flowers. Petals valvate. 
Fruits about $ line long, not compressed, acutely 4-angled with 2 styles, or 
very "end 3- angled with 3 styles, obseurely striate, but not seen quite ripe. 
W. Australia. Wet sands, Roltenest Island, Preiss, n. 2085; wet places, Swan 
gv Ouid KLENG 
for the satel prominent lateral angles of the ca me the commissure as broad as the oppo- 
site diameter of the bot it is probable, however, that when quite ripe the dorsal edge of 
re dilated. 
SECTION II. pe NTELLA. ipiam (except in H. asiatica) cuneate at the 
e or narrow, blah i mbric 
ribs vay prominent, the eommissure very narrow, yo not per- 
sisten 
v. Absinthe: Drummond, n. 104 (105 ?) and 4th Coll. n. 941. 
verticillata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849. ii. 28. An we 
glabrous annual, fro om 2 or 3 in. to twice that height. Leaves wit e 
cuneate “base tapering into the petiole, deeply divided into 3 cuneate lobes : 
argen w sent are again usually acutely 2- or 3-lobed. Stipules er? i 
nute o Um bels sessile, 6- to 12-flowered, the — or alm 
gës, bulis very minute or inconspicuous.. Petals minute, " 
obtuse, slightly imbricate in the bud. Stamens and styles v ery ger ral 
e : 
long, smooth, the lateral ribs concealed in the narrow commissure, the inter 
mediate ribs eurved and very near the dorsal edge of the car ls. gp 
phore persistent, more or less SEL divided, or “rarely remaining entire. 
H. homalocarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. "i 
King George's inr e Br.; Swan River, Drummond, her? 
= A Coll.n. 145; wet places, Tweed, Murray and ‘Blackwood rivers and Moun 
ae ano} — species, differing from the other Centellas, and, pe prim 
Vida w dissected leaves and usually split carpophore. The frui 
wise quite ‘that of pero le. ETT 
/ 26. H. asiatica, Linn.; DC. Prod. iv. 62. A creeping prea 
rooting at the nodes, and sometimes half-floating. Leaves broadly rer 
orbicular or almost reniform, entire crenate or sinuate toothed, 1 to | 
