235 
(2) B. rronipunpa., (Wall. ) 
Tdent. Wall, Cat. in Voigt. Hort. Cale. p. 146. 
Syn. Zizyphus floribundus, Wall. Roxb. f, Ind. (Ed. Wall.) 
II. p. 368, 
_ Srzc. Cuan. Shrub, unarmed, smooth: leaves ovate-acute, 
quite entire, glaucous beneath: panicles large, terminal: drupe 
somewhat cylindrical: flowers small, white. 
Silhet, flowering in May. 
GENUS II. VENTILAGO. 
Pentandria Monogynia. Ser: Sys: 
Deriv, From Ventus, the wind, and Ago, to drive away. The 
seeds are winged and easily scattered by the wind. ~ 
Gen. Cuar. Large climbing shrubs: leaves alternate, oblique 
at the base: calyx spreading, 5-cleft: petals 5, obovate, convolutet 
stamens exserted: anthers ovate, 2«celled: the connectivum pro» 
duced into a gland-like point: ovary immersed, 2«celled: style 
hairy, short, 2-toothed at the apex: fruit l-celled, 1+seeded, pro 
duced upwards into an oblong membranaceous wing. 
(1) V. Maperaspatana. (Gaerin.) 
Ident. W.& A, prod. 1. p. 164.—-Gaertn. fr. I. p, 223.— 
Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p. 629.—Dee. prod. I. p. 38. 
Syn. V. denticulata, Willd. Dec. prod. Il. p. 38. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 163.—Rumph. Amb. V, t. 20—« 
Roxb. Cor. I. t. 76. 
Srrc. Cuan. Climbing shrub: leaves from orbicular to ovate> 
acuminated, acute or obtuse or cordate at the base, crenate-serrated, 
or quite entire, glabrous or pubescent: flowers fascicled on leafless 
branclies, small, greenish, smelling offensively : fruit greenish, size 
of a pea, with a long linear wing. 
Peninsula. Khandalla. Hills in Bengal and Assam. Flowering 
in the cold season. The bark is used for cordage, and the fishermet 
in Amboyna use the long elimbing stems instead of ropes, 
(2) V. Bompayensis. (Daiz.) 
Ident. Hook. Jour. Bot. III. p. 36. 
Spec. Cuan. Branchlets petioles and flowers covered with ful« 
vous tomentum: leaves lanceolate, acute at the base, unequal, 
acuminated; crenated: the crenaturés with callous points, glabrous 
flowers fascicled in the axils of the leaves, short-pedicelled, 
Shorla Ghaut, flowering in February, 
