164 RHAMNEA. Vierte 
Wight! cat. n. 509.—Sageretia parviflora, G. Don in Mill. dict. 2. p. 29.—8. 
filiformis, G. Don, l. e.—Rhamnus parviflorus, Klein ! in Schult. syst. 5. 
p. 295 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 28.—R. filiformis, Roth, nov. sp. p. 153; DC. prod. 2. 
p. 28 ; Spr. syst. 1. p. 169. 
This has so much the habit of Sageretia oppositifolia, Brongn., that we only 
remove it to the present genus on account of the flat disk and 2-cleft style. 
IIl. VENTILAGO.  Gertn. fr. t. 49. 
Calyx spreading, 5-cleft. Petals 5, obovate, convolute. Stamens exsert- 
ed: anthers ovate, 2-celled ; the connectivum more or less produced beyond 
the anther into a gland-like point. Disk fleshy, flat. Ovary immersed in the 
disk, 2-celled. Style compressed, hairy, short, 2-toothed at the apex. Fruit 
indehiscent, woody, 1-celled, 1-seeded, produced upwards into an oblong 
membranaceous wing.—Large climbing shrubs with stiff branches. Leaves 
alternate, short-petioled, coriaceous, oblique at the base, M eT 
marked on the upper side with numerous strizeform close transverse veins. 
Flowers pedicelled, fascicled on longish leafless branches that form a panicle. 
514. (1) V. maderaspatana (Geertn.:) leaves from orbicular to ovate-acu- 
minated, acute or obtuse or cordate at the base, crenate-serrated or quite en- 
tire, glabrous or pubescent.—Gertn. fr. 1. p. 223. t. 49; Roxb. fl. Ind. 1. 
p. 629 ; (ed. Wall.) 2. p. 413.—Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 2.—2« ; branches and leaves 
glabrous ; flowers small; disk hairy only in the centre.— Wight ! cat. n. 510. 
— V. maderaspatana, DC. prod. 2. p. 38; Spr. syst. 1. p. 7815 Roxb. Cor. 1. 
t. 16.—V. bracteata, Wall.! L. n. 4269. b (and probably a).—4; leaves and 
branches pubescent when young, afterwards more or less glabrous; flowers 
r; disk hairy all over.— Wight ! cat. n. 510, 511.—V. maderaspatana, 
Wall.! L. n. 4268.—V. denticulata, Willd.; DC. l. c. ; Spr. l c. 
Rumph’s 5. t. 2. is usually quoted here, but, as Dr Wallich has observed, 
it is represented to climb by means of hooked prickles: this, however, 18 pro- 
bably an addition of the engraver; the description stands thus: “ rachides 
hinc inde crassas emittunt claviculas, quee proximis sese implicant ramis,aC - 
figunt, nulle autem spine in hoe observantur fune:" in which the c/avicu 
mentioned are not prickles, as the engraver had understood the passage, but 
the fruit ; as is obvious by the author saying, ** flores fructusque in hoc vimi- 5 
ne nondum fuere observati," although the fruit be very well figured by him. 
IV. RHAMNUS. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 128. 
Calyx urceolate, 4-cleft. Petals either wanting; or 5, either nearly flat, 
or slightly convolute and emarginate at the apex. Stamens with ovate ^ — 
celled anthers. Torus thin, lining the tube of the calyx. Ovary free from 
the calyx and not immersed in the torus, 2-3-4-celled. Styles 2-4, more or 
less connected or distinct. Fruit fleshy, containing 2-4 indehiscent 
ginous nuts; one of them occasionally abortive.—Shrubs or small trees. 
Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, stipuled, short-stalked, feather-nerved. 
515. (1) R. Wightii (W. & A. 3 unarmed, glabrous, young parts turning 
black in dg S leaves opposite or nearly so, elliptical, with a short sudden 
acumination, slightly coriaceous, sharply and closely serrated : pedicels axil- 
lary, fascicled, scarcely longer than the flower, much shorter than the pe- 
tiole: calyx 5-cleft: petals cuneate, obovate, obtuse with a short apiculus, - 
flat: ovary 3-4 celled: styles 3-4, connected to the middle, then diverge — — 
seeds with a deep furrow at the base on the outer side.— Wight / cat. n. 904" — — 
—Ceanothus Wightiana, Wall.! L. n. 4264-——Courtallum. AM 
