Limnocharis
(from limine, a marsh, and charis, grace, beauty; alluding to the habitat and appearance of the plants). ORD. Alismaceae. A genus consisting of three or four species of stove, greenhouse or half-hardy herbaceous perennial aquatics, natives of tropical America. Flowers yellow, on long stalks. Leaves fasciculate, swimming, ovate or cordate-orbicular. L. Plumieri, the only species in cultivation, is a handsome stove or greenhouse aquatic. It should be grown in tubs or cisterns, or in the shallow part of an aquarium. Propagation may be effected by divisions, by runners, or by seeds. L. Plumieri (Plumier's).* fl. yellow, six to ten in an umbel; scape and peduncles three-sided, the former purple, green at top, the latter with reddish angles. June to November. l. oblong, very blunt at each end; petiole three-sided, sheathing at base, purple below, green above. h. 1 1/2ft. Brazil, 1822. (B. M. 2525.)