870 



LXX. UMBELLIFER^. 



[Hydrocotyle. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 28; 



(3) H. rotundifolia Roxh. Hort. Beng. 21 

 Clarke, I.e. ii. 668. 



A very slender little creeper. Leaves orbicular cordate shortly 

 lobed and crenulate, '25 in. across, shining light green; petioles 

 *2 to I in. long. Flowers in very small heads, sessile or on a solitary 

 axillary peduncle, 'i to "2 in. long, very slender. Fruit very small, 

 strongly ribbed. Hab. Singapore, Tanglin. A weed in paths. 

 Distrih. Indo-Malaya. Native name : Kara-Kara. 



Fig. 73. — Hydrocotyle javanica. 



2. ERYNGIUM, Linn. 



Spiny, glabrous, erect herbs. Leaves spiny toothed, entire 

 lobed or dissect. Flowers in simple heads, bracteate. Bracts 

 whorled, spiny. Calyx-tube covered with ascending scales; teeth 

 rigid, acute. Petals whitish, narrow, emarginate. Fruit nearly 

 cylindric; carpels sub-compressed, ridges obtuse not prominent. 

 Species 100, temperate and tropical, whole world. 



(i) E. foetidum Linn. Sp. PI. 232. 



About a foot tall. Stem branched above. Leaves radical, 

 oblong-oblanceolate, serrate, 4 to 9 in. long, -i in. wide. Bracts, 

 lower deeply lobed, upper smaller, i in. long, entire, whorled, all 

 spiny. Spikes cylindric, green, under i in. long. Hab. Waste 



