Ventilago* pentanpria monogyniA.' 413 



VENTILAGO, Gaert. 



Calyx five-parted. Corol five-petalled. Germ hid in the crenulat. 

 ed fiat nectary. Style two- cleft. Samara semi-supera, globose 

 long-winged, one-seeded. Embryo erect, with perisperm. 



] . V. Madraspatana, Willd. sp. i. 1 106. Gaert. Carp. i. 223. t. 49. 



Funis viniinalis, Rumph, Amb. v. 3. t. 2. 



Seng. RulAupiia. 



Telinga Yerra chictah". 



A very large climbing shrub ; a native of forests and other uncul- 

 tivated places, amongst the mountaius ;* flowering duiing the cold 

 season. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, bifarious, ovate-ob'ong, serru- 

 late, smooth, except while young, then villous; from three to four 

 inches long. Panicles terminal, composed of alternate, bifa'ious, 

 ramous, viilous branches — Flowers very numerous, small, greenish, 

 smelling very strong and offensive — Calyx, corol, nectary, stamens, 

 and pistillum as in Rhamnus J uj aba. —Capsule (Samara) globular, 

 size of a pea, surrounded near the middle with the remaining necta- 

 ry, terminating in a long, linear, membranaceous wing, one-celled, 

 not opening of itself. — Seed solitary, round. 



Obs. This plant is generally dioiqous. The smell of the flowers 

 is very offensive, not unlike that of Sterculiafatida. 



Obs. by N. W. 

 While young the stem and flexuose branches are striped with 

 white lines, which elegantly contrast with the smooth green bark, not 

 unlike what is observed in the beautiful Acer striatum. — In the hor- 

 tus siccus of the late Dr. Heyne specimens are preserved of Willde- 

 now's V. dentata (nov. act. berol. iii. 417); which I am supported by 

 one of the very first authorities in botany in consideiing only as va- 

 * Common in the north parts of BeDgal. Ed, 



