Vcntilago.'] 29. iiiiamne.e. 61 



tube, 2-3-colleJ; cells 1-ovaloI. Fruita varloas, sometimes wingoil. 

 Seed generally albumiaous. 



Fcandent shrubs. Fruit dry, l-celle<l, l-wini,'eil ... VentilaOo. 



Trees or shrubs. Fruit dry or iioshy with a 1-3-cclled 



stone, not winged. 



li-avos :?-nerved .. ZiZYPUUS. 



Fruit dry or fleshy of .3 pyrenes or oocui. Disc lining 



the calyx-tube, or flesliy and filling it. 

 Trees or shrubs. Disc thin, lining the calyx-tube ... RilAMifU.S. 

 Disc fleshy, filling the calyx-tube. 

 Trickly shrubs. Leaves opposite. Flowers subum- 



bellate SctJTr.v. 



bhrubs. Flowers sessile in terminal panicles. Leaves 



opposite Sageretia. 



Erect shrubs. Leaves alternate. Fruit size of pea, 3- 



celled, not winged... CoLUBRlNi. 



Climbing shrub. Fruit 3-winged GouANiA. 



VENTILAGO, Grertn. 

 Scandent shrubs. Leaves alternate. Flowers in axillary and 

 terminal panicles. Calyx 5-clefr-, lob^s keeled within. Petals 5, 

 hooded, deflexed. Stamens 5, adnate to the base o£ the petals. Disc 

 5-lobed, filling the calyx-tube. Ovary immersed in the disc, 

 2-celled. Fruit 1-celled, l-seeded, produced at the summit into a 

 long wing. 



Nut girt at the base. Ovary with a few white hairs 

 at the base. Calyx glabrous within V, madraspatana. 



Nut girt round the middle. Ovary densely pubes- 

 cent. Calyx also densely pubescent within V. calyculata. 



V. madraspatana, Gasrfcn. Fruct. 1223, t. 49, f. 2 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 631 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 48 ; Brandls For. Fl. ^^. Locandie, Icanwail, M. 

 Throughout the moist ghjifc forests of the Konkan and North Kanara. 

 Fl. Dec, Jan. Fr. May. 



V. calyculata, Tula^ne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, VIII. 124 ; Fl. Br. I. 

 1. 631 ; Brandis For. Fl. 96. Papri, Vern. Vei'y common in the deciduous 

 forest.s of the Konkan and Deccan ; is found also in the moist forests of 

 North Kanara, Flowers daring the rainy season. Fruit ripe February 

 iu North Kanara. I know nothing of V. homhaiensis, Dalz. 



ZIZYPHUS, Juss. 

 Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, armed with stipular sharp 

 prickles. Leaves alternate, often oblique at the base, palmately 

 3-5-nerved. Flowers fascicled or in axillary cymes. Calyx 5-fid, 

 lobes keeled within. Petals 5, hooded. Disc flat, filling the short 

 calyx-tube. Ovary immersed in the disc, 2-4-celled. Fruit fleshy 

 or dry, containing a woody or bony 1-3-seeded stone. 



Leaves pubescent or tomentose beneath. Trees. 



Fruit 2-celled, orange or red when ripe ... ... ... Z. jvjuha. 



Fruit 3-celled, green when ripe, woody ... ,.. ... X. xylopynm. 



fc'traggling shrubs or climbers. 



