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HYDROCOTYLE wiriputa. 
Shining Pennywort. 
PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA.—Nat. Onv. UMBELLIFER&. 
Tris. II. Hyprocotynina. Umbelle imperfecta. Involucra obsoleta aut 
nulla. Folia cum petiolo confluentia subsimplicia. 
Gen. Cuar.—Umbelle imperfecte. Fructus raphe dorsoque angustis, ue 
. tricostato, lateribus compressis, subrotundi, cortice plerumque articulato- 
venoso. Folia subrotunda.—Spreng. 
Hydrocotyle nitidula; foliis orbiculato-reniformibus 5-7 lobatis lobis 
trifidis, floribus capitatis subsessilibus, capitulo pedunculato, pedun- 
culis petiolo brevioribus. 
H. nitidula, Ricu. Monogr. du Gen. Hydroc. p. 60. t. 63. f. 33. 
Stems a few inches in length, subsimple, slender, and, as well as the whole 
plant, perfectly smooth, and somewhat shining, creeping, throwing - 
long, terete, with 2 ovate stipules at the base. 
Headeof foners upon aorta wake 6 oa ae 
of the petioles of the leaves, very slender, composed of about 10 crowded a 
flowers, each having an ovate scale or leaflet of the involucre at its base. 
ovate. Petals greenish-white. 
Specimens of this delicate little species of Hydrocotyle, 
agreeing in all respects with the H. nitidula of Ricuarp, 
were sent to me from the Botante Gases st Livespes “st6 
been there raised from seeds received from Russia under the 
name of H. Sibthorpioides, but from what country oe sam 
derived did not appear. Ruicuarp gives the H. are os 
Native of Jaya, and speaks of it as being closely | 
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