according to Miller who received it from thence, are filled 
with this shrub. In Surinam, we are told by thc ingenious 
M. Sybilla Merian, it is spread over the country like a 
native bush, and is freguented by peculiar reptiles. But 
still it is not generally considered by naturalists as indi- 
genous inany part of the West Indies or the South American 
continent. 
From being cultivated in Catalonia, especially in the 
neighbourhood of Barcelona, to a greater extent than in 
any other part of Europe, it has acquired the english 
specific name by which it is known among us. Ít occurs 
hkewise in almost every garden in Valentia, Murcia, and 
Andalusia, where, as in Catalonia, it is completely domes- 
ticated, thrives in the open ground the year through, and is 
hardly ever without bloom. In Portugal it goes by the name 
of the Italian Jasmine. The perfume, called Essence or 
Oil of Jasmine, is obtained from this species. The Moors 
manufacture the stems of their tobacco-pipes from its 
branches, where a tube is formed at once by evacuating 
the slender column of pith. The date of its introduction 
into Europe appears to have escaped the records of botanical 
chronology. 1t was already known in England in 1629. 
; Usually propagated by ingrafting in a stock of the 
common sort, on which it takes well, aud becomes hardier 
than when had from layers. In this state it is imported from 
the Mediterranean by the Italian-Warehousemen, along with 
Orange and Lemon Trees, Myrtles, and Arabian Jasmine, 
with which it is usually kept in our greenhouses. But 
if strong well-rooted plants are turned out from their pots, 
without disturbing the mould they grow in, then placed in a 
warm border against a wall, and covered with mats in 
frosty weather; these will grow much more vigorously, 
and produce a longer succession and greater guantity of 
bloom than such as are kept in pots under shelter. 
The common white Jasmine, supposed mative of the 
East Indies, but the natural abode of which has been left a 
blank by the editors of the Hortus Kewensis, has been, 
found by some late russian naturalists to be indigenous in 
Imeretia, Circassia, and the adjacent regions, 
pisi, The calyx. b A section of the tubular portion of the corolla. € The 
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