Hydrocotyle mexicana Cham. & Schltdl.

Hydrocotyle mexicana Schlecht. & Cham. Unnaea 5: 208. 1830.
Stems slender, creeping or suberect, glabrous to hirsutulous; leaves not peltate, orbicularreniforra, excluding the petioles 8-75 mm. long, 15-90 mm. broad, the mature leaves averaging about 30 mm. in breadth, 7-11-lobed, the lobes crenate, the apical lobule somewhat elongate, sparingly to densely appressed-strigose on the nerves and veins; petioles slender, 1-23 cm. long, hirsute especially toward the apex; peduncles usually longer than the leaves, slender, axillary, 0.5-20 cm. long, more or less hirsute; umbels not proliferous, 25-70-flowered, globose, compact; pedicels glabrous, 1-7 mm. long, spreading and refiexed; petals green; stylopodium depressed; fruit suborbicular to ellipsoid in general outline, 1-1.5 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad, glabrous, the lateral and dorsal ribs evident, acute.
Type locality: "In sylvis umbrosis prope Jalapam," Mexico, Schiede b" Deppe 416. Distribution: Central Mexico to Panama, extending to central Ecuador; sea level to 11,500 feet. (Heyde &• Lux 3350, Pringle 6036.)