r 



unpublished drawings in the Banksian Museum is one of 



this plant, found it in the E. I. Company's botanic garden 

 at Calcutta, where it was said to have been received from 

 China. The Doctor subsequently ascertained it to be a 



of Ben oral. From him we learn that the flowers are 



• thirty in a bunch, and that even in those 

 regions of beautiful plants it is in great request. The dark 

 green shining: foliage, which is the most abundant and 

 thick-set of any of the simple-leaved species that we are ac- 

 quainted with, covers whatever it grows against nearly as 

 closely as Ivy, and forms a remarkable contrast to the 

 snow-white blossom. This is exceeding fragrant, and 

 shows itself about August, continuin 



bl 



sion for several months together. It does not turn to 

 purple in the decay, as that of the Arabian Jasmine, nor 

 is it so fugacious. The lower leaves of the flower-bearing 

 branches are generally several times smaller than the others 



and rounded ; 



ften nearly naked, gra- 



dually shedding the pubescence that covered them. In 

 the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, by a mistake 

 exceeding rare in that valuable work, the species is stated 

 to have been cultivated by Miller in 1759, on the authority 

 the seventh edition of his dictionarv : where indeed he 



will 



t 



by the side of 



the hot-house; a small spot on t 



of the bed will answer the purpose. Our drawing 



at the garden belon<rin<r to the Comtesse de Vandes, at 

 Bavs water. 



D "O 



We should observe that the plant described by Vahl 

 (mum. 1. 27) for Jas.minum undidalum, we take to be the 

 present species, and not the Liunean Nyctaxtiies undulata; 

 and this opinion is confirmed by his quoting for it Bur- 

 man's plant, which is the Jasminum hirsutum and not 

 the ■undulation. 



* 



a The calyx, b The tuhe of the corolla deprived of the limb dissected t<* 

 show the position of the stamens, c The pistil. 







f 



has recorded a plant by the title of ]\ T 



but which, upon critically examining 1: 



be found really to be the Nyctaxthes Arbor tristis. The 



present plant is in fact of recent introduction, having 



been first sent from the East Indies by Dr. Roxburgh to \ 



Lady Amelia Hume. It is said to be easily multiplied by 



