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open sinus at the base, nitid, 5-7-cleft, 5-7-nerved; lobes broad 

 and shortly cuneate, 3-5-dentate. Fruits 2-4 or rarely several 

 to an umbel, broadly orbiculate, complanate, subdidymous, 

 smooth, glabrous, impunctate and latericio-flavous when dried, 

 crowned with short gracile divaricate persistent styles and a 

 small pulvinate disk at the top, l^mm. long ; mericarp convex 

 and 1-nerved on each side, obtuse with a delicate costal line on 

 the dorsal edge. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-chitomegusa. 



Hah. Japan. 



The fruits are few in the umbels but proportionally large. 



Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lamk. Encycl. Meth. Bot 

 III. (1789), p. 153 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. p. 302 ; Rich. Monogr 

 Hydroc. p. 56, tab 54, fig. 8 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 877 

 DC. Prodr. IV. p. 66 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. I. p. 178 



Hydrocotyle ranunculoides /3. sibthorpioides Spreng. in Schult 

 Syst. Yeg. VI. (1820), p. 349. 



Hydrocotyle rotundifolia Roxb. ' Hort. Bengal. (1814), p 

 21,' et Fl. Ind. II. (1832), p. 88; DC. I.e. p. 64; Wight 111 

 Ind. Bot. tab. 564, et Ic. PL Ind. Or. tab. 564 ; Benth. Fl 

 Hongk. p. 134; Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. 4 rae ser. XVIII. p 

 220 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. FL Brit. Ind. II. p. 668 ; Forbes et 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 325 ; Henry, List PI 

 Formos. in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXIV. Suppl. p. 47; Ito et 

 Matsum. Tent. FL Lutch. I. p. 259 ; Diels in Engl. Bot. Jahrb 

 XXIX. p. 491 ; Yabe, Revis. Umbel. Jap. p. 12, tab. 1. fig. 3 ; 

 Komar. FL Mansh. III. p. 181. 



Hydrocotyle rotundifolia Maxim, in Mel. Biol. XII. p. 461, 

 pro parte, non Roxb. excl. syn. 



Hydrocotyle nitidula Rich. Monogr. Hydroc. (1820), p. 60, 

 tab. 63, fig. 33 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 877, excl. syn. ; DC. 

 Prodr. IV. p. 66 ; Zoll. et Moritz. Syst. Verz. (1845-46), p. 42 ; 

 Zoll. Syst. Verz. Ind. Archip. p. 139 ; Hiern in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 

 Afric. III. p. 5 ; Molkenb. in Miq. PL Jungh. p. 92 ; Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. I. 1, p. 735, et Prol. FL Jap. p. 243. 



