870 lxx. uMBELLiFERjii. [Hydrocotyle. 
{3) H. rotundifolia Roxb. Hort. Beng. 21; FI. Ind. ii. 28; 
Clarke , l.c. ii. 668. 
A very slender little creeper. Leaves orbicular cordate shortly 
lobed and crenulate, *25 in. across, shining light green; petioles 
*2 to i in. long. Flowers in very small heads, sessile or on a solitary 
axillary peduncle, -i to -2 in. long, very slender. Fruit very small, 
strongly ribbed. Hob. Singapore, Tanglin. A weed in paths. 
Distrib. Indo-Malaya. Native name : Kara-Kara. 
2 . ERYNGIUM, Linn. 
Spiny, glabrous, erect herbs. Leaves spiny toothed, entire 
lobed or' dissect. Flowers in simple heads, bracteate. Bracts 
whorled spiny. Calyx-tube covered with ascending scales; teeth 
rigid, acute. Petals whitish, narrow, emarginate. Fruit nearly 
cylindric; carpels sub-compressed, ridges obtuse not prominent. 
Species 100, temperate and tropical, whole world. 
(1) E. foetidum Linn. Sp. PL 232. 
About a foot tall. Stem branched above. Leaves radical, 
oblong-oblanceolate, serrate, 4 to 9 in. long, *1 in. wide. Bracts 
lower deeply lobed, upper smaller, 1 in. long, entire, whorled, all 
spiny. Spikes cylindric, green, under 1 in. long. Hab. Waste 
