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JASMÍNUM nudiflorum. 
Naked-flowered Jasmine. 
DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
. Nat. ord. Jasminacea. (JasminwoRTS, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 650.) 
JASMINUM. L. 
J. nudiflorum; ramis angulatis vimineis, foliis hysteranthiis trifoliolatis gla- 
bris, foliolis ovatis acutis, floribus (luteis) solitariis basi sguamatis, 
calycis laciniis linearibus herbaceis, corolla limbo 6-lobo obtusissimo,— 
Lindl. in Journ. of Hort. Soc. I. p. 153. 
Here we have another of the interesting plants in- 
troduced from China by Mr. Fortune. “It is a shrub 
with angular deep-green trailing branches, which have little 
disposition to branch in the first year of their growth. The 
leaves are shining, deep green, and each consists of three 
sessile leaflets of an ovate form. They fall off early in the 
autumn, soon after which they are succeeded by large yellow 
scentless flowers, which grow singly from the buds formed in 
the axils of the leaves that have previously dropped. ‘The 
limb of their corolla is about an inch in diameter, and divided 
into six broad, oblong, blunt, flat segments. 
“ The species, although new to gardeners, is not entirely 
unknown, for it has been distributed in a dried state from the 
Imperial Russian-Chinese Herbarium, under the erroneous 
name of J. angulare. 
* [t appears to be a greenhouse plant, and grows freely in 
almost any sort of soil, especially rough sandy peat. During 
summer an ample supply of water should be given to its 
roots, and it must be syringed over head once or twice a day. 
In consequence of its slender habit it is necessary either to 
train it on a trellis or to induce it to form an upright stem 
three or four feet high, so that the young twigs may hang 
down as they may be naturally inclined. 
“ Being a free winter bloomer, and continuing in flower for 
a length of time, it will doubtless prove a good addition to 
our greenhouse plants." 
