1896.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 879 



Hook. m. Fl. Br. Iiid. I, 631 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma. I, 262. V. denti- 

 culata, Willd. Nov. Act. Ber. iii. 417 ; DC. Prod r. ii. 38. V. macrantha, 

 Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viii. 123. V. madraspatana, Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i. 629 ; Cor. PI. i. 55, t. 76 ; Wall. Cat. 4268, in part. W. & A. Prodr. 

 164. V. silhetiana, Sinithiana, and sulphurea, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. iv-viii. 125. 



South Andaman. — Distrib. Throughout the hotter parts of India 

 and Java. 



Tulasne was the first to establish V. calyculafa as a species, and he 

 founded it upon three Indian speoimens, viz., Herb. Stracbey and Win- 

 terbottam No. 349, Wall. Cat, 4268a. (both from Kamaon) and Wall. 

 Cat. 4268H. (from Sylhet). The characters used by him to distin- 

 guish V. cahjculata as a species distinct from the older F. madraspatana, 

 Graertn. are that the latter has more slender and more glabrous panicles ; 

 that the ovary is less hairy and the styles less divergent ; the wing 

 being attached to the base of the fruit in V. madraspatana, while it s-pvings 

 from about the middle of it in V. calyculata. The last character is the 

 one most relied upon ; but, as regards it, I find no degree of constancy. 

 I do not think the form named calyculata desei'ves rank as more than a 

 variety of typical V. madraspatana Gaertn., tlie synonymy of which, 

 (as distinct from tliis variety) is as follows : Brongn. Mem. sur la Fam. 

 des Rhamnees, Ann. Sc. Nat. for 1827, Ser. I (Vol. X) p. 358, t. 12, fig. 

 IV ; W. & A. Prodr. 164 ; Wight Ic. 163 ; Wall. Cat. 4268, in part ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 48 ; Thwaites Bnum. 74 ; Brandis For. Fl. 96 ; Laws, 

 in Fl. Br. Ind. I, 631. V. hracteata, Wall. Cat. 4269. 



The typical form seems to occur only in Southern India and Ceylon. 



2. Ventilago Maingayi, Laws, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 631. 

 Young branches and panicles puberulous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 glabrous, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, sub-acute, entire, the bases nar- 

 rowed ; main nerves 8 to 11 pairs, spreading ; length 2'5 to 4'5 in., 

 breadth 1'25 to 1*75 in., petiole '1 to "2 in. Panicles narrow atid spike- 

 like, shorter than the leaves when in flower, longer when in fruit; the 

 branches very short, distant, cymose. Flowers crowded ; 1 in. in diam., 

 about as long as their pedicels. Calyx puberulous outside, glabrous 

 inside, the keels of its lobes very bold. Disc pubescent. Ovary glab- 

 rous. Fruit greenish-yellow, glabrous ; the nut '25 to "35 in. in diam. ; 

 the wing blunt, 1-nerved, mottled with red, 3 to 35 in. long and about 

 '6 in. broad. Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 263. 



Malacca : Maingay ( Kew Dist.) No. 407 ; King's Collector, No. 7721. 

 Distrib. Tenasserim ? Cambodia ! 



A species easily recognised by its elongated entire thinly coriaceous 

 leaves, and long- winged glabrous fiuit. Tenasserim is given as a local- 



