Rumphius remarks, that the plant thrives about the house* 

 in Amboyna, but soon disappears, when tlie.se are deserted. 

 Thunbere and Loureiro mention its cultivation in the ear- 



dens of China and Cochinchina, but as an exotic. 



Dr. Roxburgh, among his unpublished drawings, lias a 

 Jasmine, found spontaneous in thickets on the Coast of 

 Coromandel, which he takes for the type of the species ; 

 but which appears to us far too distinct to be readily 



admitted as such ; bavins a many-flowered trichotomous 

 inflorescence ; a six-cleft calyx and corolla, with the seg- 

 ments of the latter tapering to a point, divaricate bractes 

 beneath the divisions of the panicle, and a foliage of an ap- 

 pearance different from that of Sambac. 



With us the Arabian Jasmine thrives best in the bark-bed 

 of the stove, where it continues to blooni for six or seven 

 months in succession; and when led along the frame of the 

 building, attains 20 feet or more in length. The leaf has 

 been assimilated bv some to that of both the orange and 

 lemon-trees. The flower drops easily from the calyx, and 

 in decaying changes to a deep purple hue; the limb is under 

 an inch in diameter, with segments rather shorter than the 

 tube. Formerly this shrub was imported by the Italian* 

 warehousemen from the Mediterranean; but this being en- 

 grafted on the common Jasmine, was esteemed of less value 

 than that from the layer, on account of the disproportionate 

 (and thence unsightly) growth of the stock and graft. Its 

 cultivation with us is recorded as far back as the vear 166.5. 

 Clusius tells us that it was received at Florence from Cairo 

 as a novelty, in the year ]660; the date probably of its 

 standing in that part of Europe, where it has become uni- 

 versal. The large full variety, known anions gardeners 

 by the name of the " Tuscan Jasmine," acquires a much 

 broader disk with a shorter tube, by the filling of the flower. 

 The bloom of this is strung by the females of India in the 

 evening- of the day into chaplets and necklaces. Sambac is 

 the Arabian appellation of our plant; which, according to 

 Alpinus, is in great request at Cairo. 



Our drawing was made at the botanical establishment of 



the Comtcsse de Vandes, Bayswater. 



a A flower deprived of the limb, somewhat magnified and dissected, so as 



to show the position of the stamens and pi-ail. 



