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JASMINUM gracile. 
Australian Jasinine. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. JASMINEE. Jussieu gen. 104. Div. II. Fructus baccatus. 
JASMINEÆ. Brown prod. 1. 520. 
JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. E 1. 
Div. Folia simplicia. 
J. gracile, foliis ovatis nitidis, petioli articulo superiore vix triplo longiore, 
calycibus campanulatis: dentibus brevissimis. Brown prod. 1. 521. 
Jasminum gracile. .Andrews's reposit. 127. Konig in aun. of bot. 2. 358. 
Hort. Kew, ed. 2. 1. 16. 
Jasminum geniculatum. Venten. choix. 8. 
Arbor parva, tota glabra. Rami teretes, inferiores canescentes, superi- 
ores virescentes. Fol. opposita, petiolata, patentia, ovato-ciliptica, acumi- 
nata, integerrima, levissima, plana, enervia, immerse venosa: venis infe- 
rioribus extra medium margini parallelis; duas uncias longa. Petioli foliis 
quadruplo breviores, supra canaliculati, propé basin geniculo incrassato in- 
structi, infra quem teretes. Racemi terminales, compositi, ter vel quater 
trichotomi, expansi, longitudine foliorum. Pedunculi et communes et par- 
tiales filiformes. Cal. monophyllus, cyathiformis, levis, parvus, lineam 
unam longus, persistens, quinque- v. sex- raró septemdentatus, dentibus acutis 
minutis, subaequalibus. Cor. monopetala, hypocrateriformis, alba; (suave- 
olens, odore Jas MINI officinalis): "Tubus cylindraceus, angustus, semunci- 
alis, superne compressus: Limbus patens, planus, 5-6- vel rard 7 partitus: 
Laciniæ oblonge, acute, basi subimbricate. Fil. 2, brevissima, tubo supra 
medium inserta, erecta: Antherz erecta, oblonga, intra faucem recondita, 
à flavo virentes: Pollen luteum. Germ. superum, subrotundum, subdidy- 
mun: Stylus filiformis, erectus, tubo pauld longior, albus: Stigma bifidum: 
laciniis crassiusculis planis erectis virescentibus. Pericarpium (émmaturum J 
biloeulare: Semina solitaria. Solander MSS. apud mus. banks. (sub JAs- 
MINO lucido.) 
Native of New Holland and Norfolk Island. Intro- 
duced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1791, and now very common 
in our greenhouses, where it is seen in flower most part of 
the summer and autumn. l 
In a review of the “ Choix des Plantes” of Ventenat, 
by Mr. Koenig, in the Annals of Botany, we find the fol- 
lowing original and ingenious elucidation of the nature of 
the leaves of this genus: 
* Jasminum geniculatum. This is no other than the 
J. lucidum of the Banksian Herbarium, figured in the Bo- 
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