218 FLORA OF MADRAS. \Ventilago. 



calyx-tube saucer-like, embracing the base of the nut, wings with 

 golden-velvety pubescence 5. lomlaiensis. 



1. YENTILAGO CALYCULATA, Tul. ; F. B. I. i. 631. V. maderas- 

 patana var. (3 ; W. & A. 164. 



N. Circars, from Gaiijani to Godavari in forest tracts ; 



Deccan, in Kurnool forests ; W. Coast, in dry forests of 



Malabar and E. Nilgiris. 



A large and conspicuous forest climber. Yern. Tel. Surati 



chekka. 



2. YBNTILAGO GOUGHII, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1916, 134. 



W. Ghats in Coorg and Nilgiris (Gough, Lawson). 

 A climbing shrub. 



3. YENTILAGO MADERASPATANA, Gaertn. ; F. B. I. i. 631 ; Wt. 

 Ic. t. 163 ; W. & A. 164, var. a. 



Deccan forests from Kistna to Mysore and Coimbatore ; 

 W. Ghats, chiefly on E. slopes. 



A climbing slender shrub. The root bark gives a dye, 

 The leaves are very variable in shape, but always dis- 

 tinguishable from those of V. calyculata both in size and 

 venation. Yern. Tel. Surati chekka ; Tarn. Yempadam. 



4. YENTILAGO LANCEOLATA, Gamble in Kew Bull. 1916, 134. 



W. Ghats, in Malabar and Tinnevelly (Barber, Lawson). 

 A climbing shrub with nearly black branches. 



5. YENTILAGO BOMBAIENSIS, Dalz. ; F. B. I. i. 631 ; Bedd. Ic. 

 t. 114 (under Zizyphm wynadensis, Bedd. corrected in Index 

 p. iii). 



Moist woods in Wynaad at 3,000 ft. (Beddome). 



2. Zizyphus, Juss. 



Trees or erect or climbing shrubs, usually armed with sharp 

 straight or hooked thorns, which are transformed stipules 

 thorns solitary or in pairs, usually one straight, the other curved 

 Leaves alternate, subdistichous, 3-5-ribbed. Flowers small, 

 greenish or yellowish, in axillary fascicles or in sessile or 

 peduncled cymes. Calyx with broadly obconic tube and 5 tri- 

 angular acute lobes keeled within, lobes valvate. Petals 5, or 

 rarely 0, cucullate, deflexed. Stamens 5, opposite to and enclosed 

 in the petals and usually longer than them. Disk 5-10-lobed, 

 flat or pitted, the margin free. Ovary sunk in or aduate at the 



