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XXXV. EHAMNACE-E 



[Ventilago 



ptibescent. L. ovate or elliptic from a sliglitly oblique base, acummate, entire 

 or irregularly dentate, sec. n. 6-10 pair, arching, blade 3-4, petiole i-i m. 

 M. numerous, greenish, with a strong offensive smell, crowded on the branches 

 of large terminal leafless panicles. Nut J in. diam., pubescent. 



Subhimalayau tract from the Jumna eastward. Ouclli forests, Neioal, Behar, Central 

 India and the Peninsula. Silhet, Assam, Burma. FLNoy. -March. I follow King, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol 65 (1897), 379,in uniting with this V. cahjcidata Tulabne, 

 Brandis F. PL 96, supposed to be recognized by hroader leaves rounded at t^e base, a 

 pubescent disk, and half the fruit enclosed in the cup-sbaped calyx. 2. V. iDom- 



I'iCt. TT.—'Ventilago madraspatana, Gaertn. var. calyculata. \- 



baiftnsis Dalz. Ohats of Belgaum and North Kanara. Branchlets, petioles and in- 



n. 2^ pair, veins freely reticulate, blade 8;^, petiole J "-^^ ^\''^^^^^^^ 

 fascicles, not paniculate. Beddome (Index Ic. PL Or p. Ill) quotes as sy^^onym 

 t'wrn^ wynmUnm, Bedd. Ic. PL Or. t. 114, a lofty tree, in dense forests of the 

 Wamad. Two Malayan species with glabrous fruit are reported from Mergui, 8, V. 

 MaiiifiraTl Lawson, L oblong-lanceolate, sec. n. 8-11 pair, wing 3-3J m. long. 4. v. 

 Si^pt ^1, also in China. L. ovate, edges more or less minutely serrate, sec. 

 n. 6 or 7 pair, wing 2~2J in. long. 



Apteron lanceolatiim, Kurz F. PL i. 268. Tainway forest on the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu Yoma, probably is a diseased state of YentiUgo madr^zs^patam. 



