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Berchemia. Leaves penninerved. 



Trih. II. RKAMNEM. Fruit dry or drupaceous, containing 3 (rarely 2 — 4) indehis- 

 cent or 2-valved cocci. Ovary superior to inferior. 



* Ovary superior or half-superior. Drape fleshy or dry, superior. Disk 

 fleshy, filling the calyx-tube. (Rliamnem verce). 



Sageretia. Flowers in terminal panicles. Leaves opposite or nearly so. 

 Scutia. Flowers in fascicles or umbellets. Leaves opposite or nearly so. 

 Colttbrina. Flowers in cymes. Leaves alternate. 



* * Ovary and fruit inferior, the latter crowned by the calyx-limb. {Gouanieoz). 

 Apterost. Styles 2. Fruit globose, not winged. Flowers clustered, in terminal 



panicles. 

 Gouaxia. Fruit dry, 3-cornered or -winged. Flowers spicate or racemose, panicled. 



Ventilago, Gaertn. 



Conspectus of species. 



x Calyx adnate to the drupe, small and basilar. 

 Flowers in slender simple or branched racemes ; not indistinctly puberous, the wing 



only 1 — \\ in. long V. 2Iaclraspatana. 



x x Calyx adnate to the drupe for J — | of its length, and forming there a 

 prominent ring. 

 Flowers and fruit more or less yellowish pubescent or tomentose. 

 Racemose panicles and flowers tomentose ; fruits puberidous, the wing 1 J — 1 in. long, 



the calyx reaching the middle of the nut, V. calyculata. 



O Fruits quite glabrous, even when young. 

 All parts glabrous ; nuts about 3 lin. in diameter, the calyx reaching the middle and 



forming a sharp ring there, the wing rounded at the apex, V. leiocarpa. 



Glabrous ? ; nuts nearly J in. across, the calyx broad and flat, occupying only the basal 

 part of the nut, the wing shortly acuminate, V. Maingayi. 



1. Y. Mabraspatana, Gaertn Fruct. I. 223. t. 29 ; Wight Icon. t. 

 514 ; Bth. in Linn. Proc. v. 76 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 631. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Moulmein to Mergui (Griff, etc.) teste Bth. 



2. V. calyculata, Tul. in Ann. d. sc. nat. 4 ser. VIII. 121 ; Bth. 

 in Linn. Proc. V. 76 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 631, excl. syn. V. macrantlia. — (Venti- 

 lago Maderaspatana, Boxb. Corom. PI. I. 55. t. 76 and Fl. Ind. I. 629, non 

 Gaertn.). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the open, especially the eng-forests, and in 

 the dry forests of Prome, Pegu, and Martaban ; also Ava ; Tenasserim, 

 teste Lawson. — Fl. Nov. ; Fr. March, Apr. 



3. V. leiocabpa, Bth. in Linn. Proc. V. 77 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 631. 

 Hab. Tenasserim. 



4. V. Maingayi, Laws, in Hf. Ind. FL I. 631. (V. sp. Griff Not. 

 Dicot. 492). 



Hab. Tenasserim (Helf.) ; Mergui (Griff.) teste Lawson. 



