APPENDIX. 



A REVIEW OF THE GENUS JASMINUM. 



The incorporation of the species occurring in the Flora Indica of Rox» 

 burgh, the majority of which are there noticed for the first time, and have 

 not been transferred to any of the general systems, is the only claim to 

 attention that can be advanced for the ensuing Review. 



Dr. Roxburgh, though manifestly a man of talent and considerable 

 shrewdness, was negligent in his writing, inattentive to method, and ap- 

 parently endowed with a very slender share of literary education. The 

 descriptions of the objects of his pursuit will be found replete with important 

 matter and useful remarks, obscured by circumlocution and repetition, and 

 still more by untechnical ambiguous terms, not unfrcquently the vehicles of a 

 sense in direct opposition with that intended. Others will judge whether we 

 have retained the good, and rejected the faulty; w^e can only vouch for 

 having presented the matter in a smaller compass, and in a tongue more ge- 

 nerally in use among the students of Botany, than the one in which it stands 

 in the original place. 



We are unable to decide to our satisfaction, taking the descriptions for 

 the standard, whether arborescens and latifolium may not be the types of 

 the double and full varieties of SamhaCy so well known as the Arabian 

 and Tuscan Jasmines. If neither of these is the type of any presumed 

 variety of that species, it has not been found wild in any part of India by the 

 author of the Flora Indica. Grand ijlorum is another of the genus, which 

 the Doctor never found wild in Inrlia, although universally held to be a 

 native of that country. 



Several of the Indian Jasmines have been recorded by Vahl by such 

 brief and vague characters, that we can have no assurance that others in the 

 Flora Indica may not be their iterations; at least we must rely upon the 

 sagacity and attention of the writer of the latter work for their not being so. 



HeteropJiijllam, apparently the most desirable and ornamental species of 

 the genus, has not yet, we believe, appeared in our collections. Its large 

 golden blossom is said to be produced in greater massr<5, and to be still more 

 frae^raut than that of revolntnm, with which it agrees in colour. 



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