Hydrocotyle. UMBELLIFER2. 535 
{Flowers white or pink-tinged :—[p. 534) 
Lateral primary ridges hardly wider than dorsal; carpo- 
phore distinct, 2-partite or not; calyx-tee OC isssecs Seseli. 
Lateral primary ridges thick, triangular, corky, much 
exceeding dorsal; carpophore 0; calyx-teeth small, acute 
nanthe. 
tPrimary lateral ridges of the fruit excurrent, winged ; fruit much 
dorsally compressed, the wings of the opposing carpels closely 
applied face to face [p. 534].........ssseseeeeereeeeeeereses Peucedanum. 
*Secondary ridges of the fruit prominent; fruit subterete, not 
winged :—[p. 534 
Fruits glabrous, secondary ridges broad, very blunt; involuere of 
a ae ee apace re eh Coriandrum 
Fruits hirsute, secondary ridges bristly; bracts of involucre 
MUMEFOUS, pinnate .......00...--secersrseeccesenccncceserstenesnayers Daucus. 
* 
384. Hydrocotyle Linn. 
a Prostrate herbs, rooting at the nodes ; leaves cordate or hastate 
_ (Indian species), round or angled, subentire or palmately lobed, 
-_long-petioled ; stipules small, scarious. Flowers white, sometimes 
sexual, in small, simple umbels; bracts small or 0. Sepals 
- Mite connate in a calyx with 5 small teeth or with limb entire. 
Petals 5, entire, valvate or imbricate. Stamens 5. Carpels 2, 
Primary ridges concealed within the commissure or remote e r 
h ee 
acute, valvate ; secondary ridges of fruit 0; pericarp not thickened ; 
leaves orbic : rotundif 
ular-cordate, *25-1 im. across ......s+s+seereeereeeee* ro vy bares 
0 tuse, imbricate ; secondary ridges as distinct as primary ? perl- 
‘arp much thickened ; leaves orbicular-reniform, *5-2°5 1S: 
a 
siatica. 
02. Hyprocoryie rotunpirota Roxb.; F. 1. ii. 38; F. B. I 
li. 668. 
N. Bengal ; C. Bengal. 
A prostrate herb. ore 
%8. Hyprocorynr astarica Linn. ; F. 1. ii. 88; F- B. I. ii. 669; 
E. D. 8. 486, ) 
In all the provin 
ces. aki 
A prostrate herb. Vernac. Brahmamand . 
