Ventilago
(from ventilo, to be exposed to the wind; alluding to the linear wings at the upper part of the fruit). ORD. Rhamneae. A genus consisting of about ten species of stove, climbing shrubs, scattered over the tropics. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal (usually leafless) panicles, rarely in the axils; calyx with five spreading lobes; petals five, obtriangular or cucullate; stamens five. Leaves alternate, sub-bifarious. Only one species has been introduced. For culture, see Berchemia.
V. madraspatana (probably a native name). fl. green, in slender, simple or paniculate spikes. June. l. 2in. to 4in. long, oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute or sub-acuminate, crenate or entire. Young branches (and leaves) glabrous or only slightly pubescent. India, 1822.