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UMBELLIFERjE. I. HYDROCOTYLE. 



hairy; umbels glomerate, solitary or crowded, many flowered. 

 I/ . ? S. Native of the Island of Java, at the foot of Mount 

 Tjerimai. Said to be allied to H. hirsuta. 

 Globose-flowered Penny-wort. PL cr. 



74 H. JAVA'NICA (Thunb. dlss. 2. p. 415. no. 17. t. 3.) plant 

 glabrous ; leaves orbicular, 7-lobed, 7-nerved ; lobes angular, 

 acute, crenated ; peduncles shorter than the petioles ; umbels 

 densely capitate, 20-flowered ; fruit orbicular, didymous, dotted 

 with purple. It. B. S. Native of the Island of Java. Rich, 

 hydr. no. 41. Lobes divided nearly to the middle of the limb, 

 ex Rich., but less divided in the figure given by Thunberg. 

 Peduncles 6-8 lines long, ex Rich., 1 inch long, ex Thunb. 



Java Penny-wort. PI. cr. 



75 H. ZEYLA'NICA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 67.) leaves glabrous, 

 orbicularly reniform, 7-nerved, 7-lobed : lobes acutish, coarsely 

 crenated ; petioles long, puberulous at the apex, as well as the 

 stems ; peduncles puberulous : ultimate ones opposite the vanish- 

 ed leaves, racemosely umbellate ; umbels densely capitate, 20- 

 flowered. Tj. . ? S. Native of Ceylon, near Candy, in fertile 

 places. Perhaps only a variety of H. Javanica. The heads or 

 umbels being disposed in racemes on the peduncles, distinguishes 

 it from all the species in this respect. Fruit when young purple, 

 dotted, but at length becoming fucescent. 



Var.fi, Heyneana (Wall, in litt. ex D. C. prod. 4. p. 67.) 

 peduncles bearing 8-10 small umbels at the apex ; pedicels be- 

 set with retrograde hairs. H. ranunculoldes, Heyne, mss. ex 

 Wall. Native of the East Indies. 



Ceylon Penny-wort. PI. cr. 



76 H. SUNDA'ICA (Blum, bijdr. p. 883.) stems sarmentose ; 

 leaves roundish-cordate, a little lobed, coarsely and unequally 

 crenated ; petioles and peduncles hairy below ; umbels sessile, 

 a little branched ; flowers in dense glomerules. 2/.B.S. Native 

 of the Malay Islands, in humid places. 



Sunda Penny-wort. PI. sarmentose. 



77 H. CHAM^MORUS (Cham, et Schlecht. in Linnaea. 1. p. 

 303.) leaves reniform, somewhat 7-lobed, doubly crenated, gla- 

 brous ; peduncles short, and are, as well as the petioles, covered 

 with retrograde hairs ; umbels 20-30-flowered, capitate ; fruit 

 full of resinous dots ; mericarps with 3 ribs : ribs smooth : fur- 

 rows convex. I/ . B. F. Native of Chili, near Talcaguano. 



Cloud-Berry-like Penny-wort. PI. cr. 



78 H. GAUDICHAUDIA'NA (D. C. prod. 4. p. 67.) plant smooth- 

 ish, dwarf, filiform ; leaves reniform, nearly orbicular, 9-nerved, 

 9-lobed, puberulous beneath, glabrous above : lobes ovate, tri- 

 dentate ; peduncles much shorter than the petioles, which are 

 puberulous; umbels capitate, 10-flowered; fruit glabrous; 

 mericarps ovate, with hardly prominent ribs. 7/ . F. Native 

 of New Holland, near Bathurst. Allied to H. moschata. Sti- 

 pulas broad, ovate, dotted. 



Gaudichaud's Penny-wort. PI. cr. 



79 H. MOSCHA'TA (Forst. prod. 136. but not of Schultes,) 

 plant hairy in every part ; leaves reniform, somewhat 5-lobed, 

 toothed, 5-nerved : lobes acute ; peduncles shorter than the 

 petioles, and more slender ; umbels capitate, 10-flowered; fruit 

 orbicular, didymous, furnished with 2 ribs on both sides. 

 2.? F. Native of New Zealand. Petioles 1-1^ inch long. 

 Limbs of leaves 6 lines in diameter. Thunb. diss. 2. p. 414. 

 Rich. hydr. no. 42. f. 24. 



Musky-scented Penny-wort. PI. cr. 



80 H. GRosscLARioiDES (Rich. hydr. no. 43. f. 30.) plant 

 hispid ; leaves somewhat reniform, deeply 5-cleft ; lobes cunei- 

 form, obtuse, doubly serrated ; peduncles length of petioles ; 

 umbels capitate, 10-flowered. %.. B. S. Native of the Island 

 of Bourbon. Leaves of involucrum small, ovate-oblong. Pe- 

 tioles and peduncles 6-8 lines long. 



Gooseberry-like-]eaved. Penny-wort. PI. cr. 

 1 



* * * * Flowers disposed in verticillate interrupted spikes. 



81 H. SPICA'TA (Lam. diet. 3. p. 153.) leaves reniformly cor- 

 date, roundish, 7-nerved, crenated, rather hairy on both surfaces 

 from scattered hairs ; petioles and peduncles hairy , peduncles 3 

 times longer than the petioles ; flowers in glomerate whorles, 

 disposed in interrupted spikes ; fruit didymous, without ribs. 

 If. . ? B. S. Native of St. Domingo and Porto Rico, &c. in 

 humid parts of mountain woods. Rich. hydr. no. 25. f. 15. 

 Spreng. in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 351. H. hirsuta, Swartz, fl. ind. 

 occ. 2. p. 560. but not of Spreng. nor Blum. 



^pile-flowered Penny-wort. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1810. PI. cr. 



82 H. BRACHYSTA'CHYA (D.C. prod. 4. p. 68.) stems filiform, 

 low, smoothish ; leaves reniform-roundish, 7-nerved, crenated, 

 pilose on both surfaces ; petioles shorter than the leaves, hairy ; 

 peduncles twice the length of the petioles, hairy ; spikes oblong, 

 continuous; fruit didymous, without ribs. "J/ . ? S. Native of 

 St. Domingo. 



Short-spiked Penny-wort. PI. cr. 



83 H. LEPTOSTA'CHYA (Rich. hydr. no. 26. t. 16. exclusive of 

 the country,) leaves reniform, 7-nerved, crenated, rather pilose 

 above, glabrous beneath ; petioles nearly 3 times longer than the 

 limbs, and are, as well as the peduncles, pilose ; flowers disposed 

 in interrupted spikes, with the whorles of flowers very remote ; 

 fruit orbicular, didymous, without ribs. Tf.. B. S. Native of 

 Cuba, in humid places near the Havannah. H. B. et Kunth, 

 nov. gen. amer. 5. p. 23. Spreng. syst. 1. p. 875. exclusive of 

 the variety from Jamaica. Very like H. spicata, but differs in 

 the leaves being glabrous beneath, in the whorles being remote, 

 and containing few flowers ; and in the peduncles not exceeding 

 the leaves. 



Slender-spiked Penny- wort. PI. cr. 



SECT. II. CENTE'LLA (meaning unknown to us). Lin. gen. 1051. 

 Lag. obs. aparas. 26. D. C. prod. 4. p. 68. Stems shrubby, erect- 

 ish. Leaves cuneated at the base, with the exception of only one 

 species, neither peltate nor cordate, as in the first section. Fruit 

 less compressed, with many ribs. This section will perhaps form 

 a distinct genus when the fruit of the species is better known. 



* Petals villous. 



84 H. VILLOSA (Lin. fil. suppl. p. 175.) the whole plant more 

 or less villous ; leaves cordate, acute, nearly entire, 3-nerved ; 

 stem erectish, branched ; peduncles shorter than the petioles ; 

 umbels 3-flowered, capitate. T? . G. Native of the Cape of 

 Good Hope. Thunb. diss. 2. p. 413. Cham, et Schlecht. 1. c. 

 p. 273. Mercurialis A'fra, Lin. mant. p. 298. Centella villosa, 

 Lin. syst. veg. 13. p. 708. There is a larger variety with leaves 

 an inch long, and a smaller variety with leaves hardly 3-4 lines 

 long. Leaves nearly entire, obtuse, with a little point. Pedicels 

 1-flowered, some of them shorter than the petioles, but usually 

 longer. 



Villous Penny-wort. Fl. Aug. Clt. 1795. PI. foot. 



85 H. TRJDENTA'TA (Lin. fil. suppl. 176. Thunb. prod. p. 49. 

 diss. 2. p. 415. t. 3.) the whole plant clothed with tomentum ; 

 leaves oblong-cuneiform, narrow, 3-5-toothed at the apex ; stem 

 erectish ; peduncles rising in fascicles, very short ; fruit elliptic, 

 compressed, furnished with 4 ribs on each side. Jj . G. Native 

 of the Cape of Good Hope. Rich. hydr. no. 51. f. 37. Spreng. 

 in Schultes, syst. 6. p. 354. Bolax tridentata, Spreng. umb. 

 prod. p. 34. Allied to H. villosa from the villous petals, and to 

 H. Soldndra in the form of the leaves. 



Tridentate-leaveA Penny-wort. PI. -| foot. 



* * Petals glabrous. 



86 H. TRI'LOBA (Thunb. diss. 2. p. 416. t. 3.) plant gla- 

 brous ; leaves broadly wedge-shaped, 3-5-nerved, 3-5-toothed 

 at the apex : teeth broad, acute ; peduncles shorter than the 



