378 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



diam., on pedicels longer than themselves. Calyx sparsely puberulous 

 outside, its lobes triangular, glabrous and keeled inside. Disc glabrous, 

 tliick, filling the calyx tube ; ouary glabrous, 3-celled, the styles short, 

 distinct, sometimes sliglitly reflexed. i^rwi^ on a thin glabrous pedicel 

 elongated to nearly I inch, depressed-globular, glabrous, 25 in. in daim., 

 black when dry, the withered calyx teeth forming a ring above its base. 



Perak : King's Collector, Nos. 6561 and 7476. 



This plant differs from the other species of the genus in the 

 character of its foliage, and in the fact that the styles are quite short, 

 and not united. The flowers, however, in other respects, and the fruit 

 are exactly those of the genus. 



3. Ventilago, Gaertn. 



Scandent shrubs with alternate leaves. Flowers small, panicled, 

 minutely bracteolate. Calyx obcoiiic, 5-fid ; the teeth spreading, keeled 

 internally. Pe/aZs 5, deltoid or obcordate, deflexed, cucullate. Stamens 

 5, adnate to the petals at the base. Disc 5-angled, its margin free. Ovary 

 immersed in the disc, 2-celled, the style vei'y short. Bipe fruit sub- 

 globose, 2-celled, 1-seeded, surrounded at its base or middle by the 

 adherent calyx-tube, the fruit prolonged upward above the seed-chamber 

 into a linear or linear-oblong coriaceous apical wing. Seed sub-globoso, 

 exalbuminous. — Distrib. Species about 16 ; tropical. 



Fi'uit pubescent ... ... .„ 1. F. Madraspatana. 



Fruit glabrous. 



Leaves sub-acute, with 8 to 11 pairs of 

 main nerves, fruit '25 to "35 in. in diam... 2. V. Maingayi. 

 Leaves more or less shortly caudate-acu- 

 minate, with 6 or 7 pairs of main nerves... 3. V. leiocarpa. 

 1. Ventilago madraspatana, Gaertn. Fruct. I, 223, t. 49, p. 2. 

 Young branches and panicles pubescent. Leaves oblong-ovate to ovate, 

 sub-acute, the edges entire or obscurely sinuate in the upper half, the 

 base rounded ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, alternate, ascending ; upper 

 surface glabrous, the lower glabrous or puberulous ; length 2"25 to 5 in., 

 breadth 1-25 to 2'25 in. ; petiole '25 to '6. in. Panicles terminal and 

 axillary, longer than the leaves, narrow, with distant short many- 

 flowered cymose branches. Flowers about •15 in. in diam., shorter than 

 their pedicels, densely crowded. Calyx pubescent or puberulous out- 

 eide, glabrescent inside ; disc velvetty. Ovary tomentose, styles more 

 or less divergent. Fruit yellowish, densely pubescent, often becoming 

 sub-glabrous with age ; the nut about 2 in. in diam. ; the wing 1-nerved, 

 blunt, I'75 to 2'25 in. long and '3 to "4 in. broad. V. calyculata, Tulasne 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, VIII. 124 ; Braudis Foi*. Flora 96 ; Lawsou in 

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