common plant. Introdaced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790. 

 No drawing of it has been published before the present, 

 which was taken in the summer at the nursery of Messrs. 

 Whitley and Co. Fulham ; where it is treated as a tender 

 greenhouse plant. 



A grey furred shrub, in the plant we saw, of straggling 

 growth : stem upright, flexuose, bark cracked, pale brown : 

 branches opposite, round, when not flowerbearers twining and 

 flexile with a temated fohage, when flowerbearers straight 

 and rather stiff with a simple foliage. Leaves distichly op- 

 posite or facing by pairs in two ranks only, witiespread; 

 leaflets ovate, nerved, the end one many times larger than 

 the two diminutive side ones, largest (seen by us) about an 

 inch and an half long, acuminated at the top and mucro- 

 nate, in some instances broadly elliptic and nearly round : 

 petioles shaggily furred, general ones about 4 times shorter 

 than the terminal leaflet, partial ones extremely short. 

 Paiiicles short, terminal, trichotomous, in the gardens of 

 this climate partially abortive: peduncles and pedicles round 

 tomentose or short- wooUed. Bractes small, somewhat open. 

 Flotoei^s in each trichotomy crowded and subsessile, of the 

 smallest size in the genus, white. Calyx narrow, turbi- 

 nately cylindrical, furred, thick, marked lengthways by 

 five equidistant extremely narrow membranous seams, five- 

 toothed, teeth bluntish, pubescent inside and outside. Limb 

 of the corolla 5-7-parted, stellate, shorter than the tube, 

 segments standing apart, linearly oblong, bluntish with a 

 short point, edges of the sides revolute, about a quarter of an 

 inch in length; tube together with the faux 4 times longer 

 than the caljTc, about a third of an inch long, streakletted, 

 with a small external embossment on both sides at the point 

 of insertion of each lament: faux almost as long as the 

 tube, narrowly turbinate, compressed. Filaments short, 

 bent abruptly inwards at the base, and projecting from the 

 wall of the faux, so as to meet together at its axis : anthers 

 yellow, linear, three times longer than the filaments, mu- 

 cronate, below 'the orifice of the faux. Style even with 

 the faux, green: stigma clavately enlarged, compressed, 

 subulately pointed, seamed down the sides. Germen smooth. 



Berry globular, like that of the Arabian Jasmine. 



