Hydrocotyle torresiana Rose & Standl.

Hydrocotyle torresiana Rose & Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad 17: 196. 1927.
Stems slender, creeping, sparingly hirsute; leaves not peltate, roundish-reniform with a sinus at the base, excluding the petioles 4-20 mm. long, 5-25 mm. broad, shallowly 7-8-lobed, the lobes rounded, serrate, the apical lobule slightly elongate, hirsute especially on the nerves and veins; petioles slender, 0.5-7 cm. long, reflexed-hirsute especially above; peduncles shorter than or about equaling the leaves, axillary, slender, 5-35 mm. long, subglabrous to densely hirsute with refiexed or spreading hairs; umbels not proliferous, many-flowered, globose; styles persistent, the stylopodium depressed; fruit sessile, ellipsoid in general outline, about 1 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad, glabrous, the dorsal ribs evident, acute, the lateral somewhat obscure.
Type locality: Wet potrero on the southern slope of Volcan de Turrialba, near the Finca del Volcan de Turrialba, Costa Rica, alt. about 2400 meters, Standley 34950.
Distribution: Known only from the type locality (Standley 35,105, 35,232).