262 BHAMNEM. [VEXTriAao. 



Fruit a fleshy dnips, stone 1-i-celled, ovary 

 ^-inferior. 



Leaves 3-5-nerved from the base.— Prickly 



shrubs or trees 2. Zizyphus. 



Leaves penninerved.— An unarmed shrub . 3. Beechemia. 

 Fruit a berry containing 2-4 stones, ovary 

 superior. 



Leaves alternate or fascicled, flowers in 

 axillary clusters ..... 4. Ehamnus. 



Leaves opposite or subopposite, flowers in 



lax panicles 5. Sageretia. 



Fruit dehiscent, ovary inferior. — Cirrhose shrubs. 



Flowers in slender panicled racemes, fruit 

 3-winged 6. Gouania. 



Flowers umbellate, on long slender ped- 

 uncles, fruit not winged . . .7. Helintjs. 



1. VENTILAGO, G^rtn. ; FI. Brit. Ind.i. 630. 



Soandent shrubs. Leaves alternate, sub-bifarious. Moioers small 

 nsnalh' in terminal leafless panicles. Calyx 5-fid.; lobes spreading 

 keeled internally. Petals 5, obtriJingular or cucullate. Stamens 

 5, adnate to the base ol: the petals. Dish S-lobed, with a free, 

 margin. Ovary sunk in the disk, 2-eelled ; style very short 

 Fruit samaroid, the nut subglobose, girt at the base or middle by 

 the adhering calyx-tube, prolonged above into a linear or linear- 

 oblong coriaceous wing, .-celled, 1-seeded. Seed subglobose, exal- 

 buminous. — Species about 10, scattered over the tropics of Asia, 

 Africa, Australia and the Pacific Islands. 



v. maderaspatana, Gcertn. Fruct 223, t. 49, /. 2, var. calyculata 

 King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV, part ii, 385. V. calyculata, Tulasne 

 Brand. For. Ft. 9S ; jF, B. I. i, 630 ; Watt E. D. V. maderaspatana, Boxh. 

 Fl. Ind. i, 629 (not of G(Brtn.) ; W. ^ A. Prod. 164 (in 'part). Vern. 

 Kdli'hel (Dehra Dun). 



A large climbing shrub with woody tendrils, young parts and inflores- 

 cence pubescent. Leaves 2-4 in., petioled, elliptic- oblong from an oblique 

 base, acute or acuminate, entire or crenate, glabrous when mature ; main 

 lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, arcuate. Flowers many, small, greenish, with an 

 offensive smell, in long terminal leafless panicles. Petals deflexed. Nut 

 subglobose, tin. in diam., girt about the middle by the rim of the 

 calyx-tube. iVing linear, '-.^ in. long, pubescent, terminated by the remains 

 of the bifid style. 

 Dehra Dun, Eohilkhand, Oudh, and Bundelkhand. Flowers Feb. and 

 March and the fruit ripens in May and June. Distbib, : Sub-Himalayan 



