168 XXXV. RHAMNACEiE [Ventilago 



pubescent. L. ovate or elliptic from a slightly oblique base, acuminate, entire 

 or irregularly dentate, sec. n. 6-10 pair, arching, blade 3-4, petiole ^-J in. 

 Fl. numerous, greenish, with a strong offensive smell, crowded on the branches 

 of large terminal leafless panicles. Nut \ in. diam., pubescent. 



Subhinialayan tract from the Jumna eastward. Oudh forests, Nepal, Behar, Central 

 India and the Peninsula. Silhet, Assam, Burma. Fl. Nov .-March. I follow King, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. 65 (1897), 379,in uniting with this V. calyculata, Tulasne ; 

 Brandis F. Fl. 96, supposed to be recognized by broader leaves rounded at the base, a 

 pubescent disk, and half the fruit enclosed in the cup-shaped calyx. 2. V. bom- 



Fio. 77. — Ventilago madraspatana , Gaertn. var. calyculata. \. 



baiensis, Dalz. Ghats of Belgaum and North Kanara. Branchlets, petioles and in- 

 florescence rusty-tomentose. L. shining above, hairy glands in the axils of nerves, sec. 

 n. 2-4 pair, veins freely reticulate, blade 3-4, petiole £ in. Fl. in dense axillary 

 fascicles, not paniculate. Beddome (Index Ic. PI. Or p. III.) quotes as synonym 

 Zizyphus wynadensis, Bedd. Ic. PI. Or. t. 114, a lofty tree, in dense forests of the 

 Wainad. Two Malayan species with glabrous fruit are reported from Mergui. 3. V. 

 Maingayi, Lawson, 1. oblong-lanceolate, sec. n. 8-11 pair, wing 3-3J in. long. 4. V. 

 leiocarpa, Benth., also in China,. L. ovate, edges more or less minutely serrate, sec. 

 n. 6 or 7 pair, wing 2-2J in. long. 



Apteron lanceolatum, Kurz F. Fl. i. 263. Yainway forest on the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Yoma, probably is a diseased state of Ventilayo madraspatana. 



