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JASMINUM Sambac 



Arabian Jasmine. 



DIANDBIA WOXOGYNIA. 



JdSMINUM. Cal. monophyllus, divisus v. dentatus, persistent 



Co?-, monopodia, bjrpogyna, regular!*, hypocrateriformis, 5-8 iida, la- 



ciniis Jateialiter incumbentibus. Slam, epipetala, tubo indti^u. Germ, 

 absque disco cingcute, 2-locuiare; loculis monospermy ; pvulij erectis. 

 Stylus 1. Stig.bWobxxm. Dacca didyma \ (lobo altera sa?pe abortiente). 

 Sem. exalbumiuosum. Frutices sapiixs volubiles. Folia composita, nunc 

 simp/icia, petio/o articulate Fiores t * con/ m bis oppositi. Brown, prod. 

 1. 520, 521: revocato Mooonio Jussuei. 



J. Sambac, foliis simplicibr.s, oppos'tis, ovalis v. ellipticis acutis, v. 

 cordato-rotimdis, glabris; ramis peiiolis pedunculis calycibusque vil- 

 losis ; racemis solitariis, simplicibus. 



J as mi nam Sarnbac. Mart. Kezv. 1. 8. ed. 2. 1. 15. Andrezcs's re- 

 port. 497. iliUd. sp. pi. 1. 35. laid. en. 1. 25. 



Mogorium Sambac. Lamarck, enci/c. 4. 2 JO. Illustr. 1. 23. t. G.f. 1. 



JNyctanthes Sambac. JJn.sp.pl. I. 18. Mill, dict.ed.8 . ff. 1. 



Jasmiuum arabicum. CV/£. /;/. //o//. I on din. (A. 1). 17-10) /. 7. 



J. limonii folio conjugato. Harm. zcx/l. 128. f. 5S. f. 2. 



Flos Manorae. liitmvh. amboin. 5. 52. f. 30. 



Nalla-Mulla. IMm/. fiwr/nft. 6- 87. /. 50. 



Sambac arabum s. Geisemmum arabicum. A/pin. cegj/pt. 72, 73. Clus. 

 car. post. 3. 



Syringa arabica foliis mail arantii. Bauh. pin. 393. 



(a) tios simplex, 



(fi) tios muiiipiicatus. Andrews, loc. cit. 



(y) tios plenus. Kudda-mulla. lihecd. loc. cit. 89. t. 51. 

 Kyctanihrs grandifiora ; foliis tends oppositisque. hour. fl. cochin. 21. 

 Biorgijale. Caulis fergtf glaber, cinereus : rami subvolubilcs, vivifies, 

 villosi ; ramuli oppositi, axillares, obscure tetragoni, injincjlorifcri. Florei 

 in racemo impari-bracchiato subquini ad union : bractea vast pedicelloruni 



appressa. Folia Sivaricata, dufanti a, membtanacea, opaca, tenosa f brcvis- 



sime pctiolata, ad sumrnum 3-?nicialia : ramu/oruw stcpius diffhrmia d mi- 

 nora. Segmenta calycis suboctona, tubo scmunciali Jtvris dimidio brcviora % 

 subulatd) erecta. Cor. nivea, purpureo-emarcescent, caduca : limbics sub- 

 octopartitus ; lac. oblongce, obtuscv, v. ex supemc injlexo margine subacute?. 



A favourite throughout the East ou account of the fra- 

 grance of the bloom; but said to be native of only the 

 warmest parts of India. A 

 but without any p 



find. X 



author speaking of it pretends to have seen it, or even 



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