DICHONDRA. 
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Hoots and st. slender, creeping or running extensively in the 
loose sand and forming beds or patches of a dark shining gr. 
Whole pi. nearly or quite smooth, or with only the st. and pe- 
tioles a little puberulous. Petioles slender about an inch or not 
more than an inch and half long. L. 1-1 \ in. in diam. orbicular 
with a wide open notch at bottom and mostly retuse with a shal- 
low smaller one at top, sometimes merely obtuse, palmately 
6-nerved, always in PS. with the basal lobes rounded and quite 
entire, not angularly deltoidal or repandly toothed and acute, as 
in EB. t. 314. Ped. erect l|-2 in. long, thickened and mem- 
branously 3 -4- winged or angular upwards. Br. leafy gr. close 
beneath the fl. and erectly embracing the cal., broadly obovate 
or oval obtuse, 4—5 lines long. Sep. about the same length but 
ovate narrower and more acute, their tips overtopping the br. 
Cor. funnel-shaped 1 in. long above the br. orsep., a little more 
in diam., always pale rose-pink in PS. Lobes of stigma short 
divergent linear-subulate acute. 
In habit and foliage this pi. more resembles some entire- 
leaved aquatic Ranunculus or even Hydrocotyle than a Convol- 
vulus. 
The Azorian pi. referred to under this name by Seubert (FI. 
Az. 38) proves to be Batata littoralis (L.) according to Mr. 
Watson in Godm. Az. 197. 
tfTribe II. Dichondrece. 
ff6. Dichoxdra Forst. 
ffl. I). repens Forst. 
St. creeping pubescent : 1. fasciculate cordately rounded or 
reniform, entire but mostly retuse or notched at the apex, mi- 
nutely and inconspicuously adpresso-puberulous above, almost 
silky beneath ; ped. one-flcl. detiexed pubescent; sep. subvillose; 
pet. or lobes of cor. shorter than the sep. — Forst. Gen. 39. t. 20: 
Lam. Diet. ii. 277, Suppl. ii. 470, 111. 1. 183 ; Pers. i. 288 ; Spr. 
i. 863 ; Chois, in DC. ix. 451 ; Griseb. W. I. FI. 476. Sibthorpia 
evolvulacea Linn. Suppl. 288. “ Steripha reniformis Gsertn. ii. 
81, t. 94.” — Herb. per. Mad. reg. i, rrr. Funchal, in the Rua 
de S. Pedro, 40 or 50 paces east of the church, running between 
the stones of the pavement, one small patch. First observed by 
S r J. M. Moniz in 1868. March-June. — An almost minute in- 
conspicuous pi. with more the aspect or habit of some Hydro - 
cotyle, such as II. asiatica L., than of a Convolvulus ; discernible 
only by its dark gr. crowded 1., forming a cespitose bed or mat 
between the stones scarcely above an inch high. St. cespitose 
creeping slender or filiform yet strong and wiry, with thel. and 
