Ventilago. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 629 
ihers erect, long-cordate. Germ superior, ovate, two-cell- 
ed; each cell containing two ovula, attached to the thick- 
ened middle of the partition, Style none, or very short, 
Stigma four-toothed, Capsule oblong, size of a small field 
bean, smooth, one-celled, two-valved, opening from the base. 
Seeds solitary, at least I have not found more, oval, cover- 
_ed with a thin, succulent, veined, bright, scarlet aril, Pe- 
risperm conform to the seed, firm, and tough. Embryo erect. 
Cotyledons ovate-cordate, Radicle cylindric, inferior, 
VENTILAGO. Gert. 
Calyz five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ hid in the 
crenulated flat nectary. Style two-cleft. Samara semi- 
supera, globose, long-winged, one-seeded, knee erect, 
_ with perisperm. 
eV. Madraspotanmi Willd, sp. i. 1106, Gert. carp. i. | 
223. t. 49. 
_Funis yiminalis. Rumph. Aud Vidit; Be 
how. Ruktupita, | 
Telinga. Yerra chictali. 
A very large climbing shrub; a native of forests and ane 
uncultivated places, amongst the mountains ; flowering dur- 
ing the cold season. | 
. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, ovate-oblong, 
seifulate; smooth, except while young, then villous; from 
three to four inches long. Panicles terminal,: coal of 
alternate, bifarious, ramous, villous branches. Flowers_ ve- : 
ry numerous, small, greenish, smelling very strong and offen- _ 
sive. Calyx, corol, nectary, stamens, and pistillum as in 
Rhamnus Jujuba, Capsule (Samara) globular, size of a 
pea, surrounded near the middle with the remaining nectary, 
terminating in a long, linear, membranaceous wing, one-cell- 
ot; not open of itself. Seed solitary, round, 
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