A bushily branched dark full-leaved shrub, having a 
thickish straight tall clean stem with an opaque chesnut- 
brown bark: branches brachiately subdivided, long, twining 
at the upper part, numérously leaved, round, like the branch- 
lets petioles peduncles and calyxes covered with a close short 
roughish fur. Leaves cordate, oblong, of a dark dingy 
glossy green, shortly petioled, opposite, 14-2 inches long, 
tapered, slightly waved, veinless, nerved. "Peduncles gene- 
rally three-flowered. Flowers white. Segments of the calyx 
narrow, setiform, straight. Limb of the corolla eight-parted, 
stellate: segments oblong. 
Jasminum and Nycrantues are now the only genera 
comprised in the Order Jasminee ; abundantly distinguished, 
as Mr. Brown observes, from the-Oleine, lately detached 
from them, by the difference of the situation of the ovula, as. 
well as of the structure of the seed, the mode in which the 
. corolla is divided and its zestivation (or the way it is disposed. 
in the bud-state).. Neither is there any resemblance between. 
the general appearances of the two orders; though they co- 
incide i in so far as that both have a diandrous regular corolla 
and a fruit which.is either berried or capsular. : 
The Jasminee, freed from the Oleine (or Olive-tribe), 
have been defined by Mr. Brown in the first part of the Pro- 
dromus of his Flora of New Holland, and the following is 
our version of that character. 
Species shrubby and generally twining. Leaves oppo- 
site, usually compound, ternate or pinnate with an odd. 
leaflet at the end, sometimes simple; petiole jointed in most. 
Flowers of the corymbs opposite. Calyx of one piece, either 
divided or only indented, permanent. Corolla onepetalled, 
inferior, regular, hypocrateriform (tubular with a divided 
rotate limb); limb 5-8-parted, segments overlapping at the 
edges, imbricate and twisted together before they expand. 
Stamens epipetalous (upon the corolla), enclosed within the 
tube. Germen without any surrounding glandular disk ` (not 
imbedded at the base in a shallow fleshy matrix as this part 
is in some of the nearest tribes), 2-celled; cells one-seeded; 
ovula upright. Style single. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit either 
a twin berry or a bipartible capsule. Seed either with a 
very scanty albumen or else with none at all. Embryo 
Straight: radicle inferior. - 
