378 G. King — Maienals for a Fl&m of ihe Malayan Peninsula, ["No, 3, 
diain., on pedicels loBg'ar tlmii theraselvea. Cahjx spai'sely piibei'iilons 
outside, its lobes tnai»gulftr, glubroua and keeled inside. Disc gliibiouia, 
tliick, filling the ca-lj« tube; omr//' glubrous, 3-Cblledj the afcjles sliott., 
diKtinet, sometixnes slightly reflexed. Frnit on a thin glabrons pedicel 
elongated to uearly 1 incli, depi essed-gltjbtihir, glabrous, "ib in. in diam., 
black wben dry, the withered calyx teeth forming' a ring above its base. 
Peiuk: King's Collector, Noa. 6561 and 7476. 
This plant diffeiis from the other species of the geiina in the 
character of its folinge, and in the fact that, the styles are quite short, 
and not united. The flowers, however, in other i-cspects, aud the fruit, 
are exactly those of ihe genus. 
3. Ventii^ago, Gaortn. 
Scandent shrubs with alternate leaves. Fhitfers email, paaicled, 
minutely bracteolate. Calt/x obconic, f5-fid j the teeth spreading, keeled 
intcinally, Peiah 5, deltoid or obcordato, deflexed, cucuUafce. iSfamenji 5, 
aduate to the petals at the base. Disc S-angled, its mai-gin free. Ovary 
immersed in the disc, 2-celled, the style very shorL iJt/je/m if sub- 
globose, 1-eellcd, I'Seeded, sim-ounded nt its base or middle by the 
adlieient calyx-tube, the fruit prolonged npwai-d above the seed-chainber 
into a lineal' or linear-oblong coi iaccous apicEtl wing. S*;ed sub-globose, 
exalbuminous. — DiSTiJii*. Species about 16 ; tropical. 
Fruit pubescent ... ... 1. T , Madra^atana* 
Fruit glabmuB. 
Leaves sub-acnte, with 8 to 11 pairs of 
main nerves, fruit "25 to "35 in. in diam..., 2. F. Maingaiji. 
Leaves more or less shoi'tly caudate-acu- 
minate, with 6 or 7 pairs of main nerves... 3, V, leiocarpa. 
1. YENTtLAGO MADRASPATANA, Gaei'tn, Frnct. I, 223, t. 49, p. 2. 
Toung branches and panicles pubescent. Leaves oblong-ovate to ovate, 
sub-acute, the edges entire or obscmely sinuate in the npper half, th© 
base rounded ; main nerves 4 to 6 pairs, alternate, ascending ; upper 
surface glabrous, the lowei* glabrous or puberulous ; length 2 25 to 5 in., 
breadth I "25 to 2"25 in. j petiole '25 to '6 in. Panick'S terminal and 
axillary, longer than the leaves, narrow, with distant short nmny- 
flowered cymose branches. Flowers about '15 in. in difi^jj., shorter than 
their pedicels, . densely ci-owded. Calyx pubescent or puberulous out- 
side, glabrescent inside ; disc velvetty. Ovary tonientose, siyhs more 
or less divergent. Frnit yellowish, densely pubescent, often becoming 
sub-glabi'ous with age ; the nut about '2 in. in diam. ; the wing 1 -nerved, 
blunt, 1-75 to 2*25 in. long and *3 to -4 in, bi-oad. V. calyculata, Tulasne 
in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, VIII. 124 ; Bmndis For. Flora 96 ; Lawson in 
