Of what country the species is native, I know not ; for 

 on this coast (that of Coromandel), I have never found it but 

 cultivated; and it is always raised from seed, which may be 

 the reason we have two varieties of this most delightfully 

 fragrant plant. In our gardens it is found in the state of a 

 large shrub or small tree. Flowers nearly the whole year 

 round: in Bengal only during the rains. The flowers exhale 

 an odour something like that of fresh honey; they open at 

 sun-set and drop off at sun-rise. Destitute of blossom, the 

 shrub has but an indifferent appearance. The orange-co- 

 loured tubes of the corolla dye a most beautiful buff, in 

 various shades according to their preparation and the mode 

 of conducting the process, but unfortunately no means have 

 been yet devised to render the colour durable. 



Trunk erect : bark scabrous : branches numerous, spread- 

 ing in every direction ; young shoots 4-sided, angles formed 

 by 4 ligneous cordlike nerves that run beneath the bark. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, cordate, those next the flowers 

 oblong, pointed, sometimes entire, sometimes very coarsely 

 serrate, and sometimes with the lower parts angular, rough, 

 3-5 inches long, 1-3 broad. Inflorescence may be best de- 

 scribed as a large, terminal, leafy, brachiated panicle, com- 

 posed of small, generally 5-flowered terminal umbellets. 

 Flowers numerous, of middling size : tube orange-coloured : 

 limb white. Involucre of the umbellets 4-leaved; leaflets oh- 

 cordate, opposite, sessile. Calyx campanulate, mouth a little 

 contracted and slightly 5-notched, downy, withering. Co- 

 rolla: tube cylindric, length of the calyx: limb spreading, 

 5-8-parted, contorted (slanting circularly); segments ob- 

 liquely truncate, scalloped. Filaments nearly obsolete: 

 anthers 2-lobed, sessile within the tube. Style length of 

 the tube: stigma glandular, capitate. Capsule the size of 

 a man's thumb-nail, obcordate or nearly orbicular, com- 

 pressed, 2-celled, 2-valved, opening transversely from the 

 apex: seeds one in each cell, compressed, Sec., as described 

 by Gaertner, only that I have never discovered any thing like 

 an albumen. 



The species is still the only one of the genus; may be at 

 once distinguished from Jasmine by the fruit being a dry 

 capsule instead of a fleshy berry. 



