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JASMINUM hirsutum. 



Bright-leaved Indian Jasmine, 



I) I A NDRl A M O N O G YNIJ. 



JJSMINJJM. Supra fol. 1. 



J. hirsiitum, foliis numerosis, cordatis, utrinque villosis, Iucidis, ramis 

 petiolis bracteis calycibusque hirsutis ; intloi escentia unibtllato-aggre- 

 gata, pedunculis brevissimis, subtricbotomis. 



Jasminum hirsutum. Willd. sp. pi. 1. 36. Fa hi. enum. 1. 30. Smith. 



exot. hot. 117. t. 118. Ilort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 1G. (Exd. passim 



allegatis liheede, liai/, & Osbeck.) 

 J. pubesceus. Willd. sp. pi. ]. 37. Fahl. enum. 1. 26. 

 J. nmltiflorum. Andrews $ reposit. 496. 

 Nyctanthes hirsuta. Linn. sp. pi. 1.8; (excl. sj/n.) 

 N. pubescens. Retz. obs. bot.fasc. 5. 9. 

 N. multitlora. Harm, ind. 5. t. 3. f. 1 ; (excl. syn.) 



Caulis biorgyalis, lignosus, fiexilis, teres, scandens* griseus* opposito- 

 ramosus ; ramuli terctes, virides, e villis copiosis hirti. Folia numerosa, 

 iaterstitiis duplo longiora Sf pro gcnere densa, patent ia* cordata* acuminata 

 yiodb cum mucrone v. ramea nonnulla rotundata* saturate viridia, nitida* 

 nervosa, utrinque villosa sed juniora manifestiiis prcesertim subtus Sf in nervis, 

 ad summum 2 uncias longa Sf sesquiunam lata : petiolus incurvus. Flores ex 

 apice ramuloruvn* in pedunculis curtis subtrichotomis quant bracteas lineari- 

 lanceolate pluries brevioribus cymoso-aggregati, 3-30, inter majores generis* 

 nivei, odoratissimi. Calycis denies subsepteni, longi, carinato-subulati* tubo 

 brevioreSy erecti. Tubus crassiics cylindricus, laciniis subaqualis vAongior : 



Ymfoxxzfere unci am transversus* sub 8-partitus, laciniis oblongis* basi cordatis. 

 Anth. magna* oblongce, lutece* subsessiles, in tubo irifernce. Stigma tubo sub* 

 emicansy clavato-oblongum* viridulum, pruimdatum. 



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Li no a? us, in recording this plant by the present specific 

 name, lias adduced a false synonym, truly belonging to 

 Gu Err aud a spcciosa ; and had thus involved the species in 

 an obscurity, that could never have been dispersed by his 

 accompanying vague specific phrase; but which has been 

 lately cleared up by a reference to the specimen in his 

 Herbarium, made by the present possessor of that botanical 

 treasure. By whom also the synonymy has been reformed, 

 and completed by recalling to it the authors the mistake 

 had misled. Among those usually cited, however, we have 

 omitted Osbeck, who describes his plant as having undulate, 

 elliptic-lanceolate, ovate leaves; by which he should seem 

 rather to point to undulation, another closely allied East In- 

 dian species, than to hirsutum, Dr, Roxburgh, among whose 



