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SOLANUM jasminoides, 
Jasmine-leaved Bittersweet. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. SOLANACEZ=. (NIGHTSHADES, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 618.) 
SOLANUM.—L. 
S. Jasminoides ; scandens, glabrum, foliis pinnatifidis ternatis integrisque 
longè petiolatis, foliolis ovatis basi obtusis, paniculis cymosis terminalibus 
oppositifoliisque. 
S. jasminoides, Pazton's Magazine, vol. viii. t. 5. 
Although we adopt the name given to this plant by the 
Editor of Mr. Paxton's Magazine, we acknowledge that we 
do so without being satisfied about its being distinct from the 
old S. Seaforthianum. Its native country is unknown ; it is 
merely stated to have been received from the Glasgow Bo- 
tanic Garden, by Messrs. Young of Epsom, and is ** consi- 
dered to be a South American plant." S. Seaforthianum is 
a West Indian species, growing freely in a conservatory. 
The only distinction we can make out between the two, 
consists in the present plant having its flowers more com- 
pactly panicled, and the leaves less undulated than they are 
represented in the published figures of Lord Seaforth’s 
Bittersweet, but we have no specimen of the latter in our 
Herbarium, and want means of comparison. 
The leaves of this plant are sometimes pinnatifid, some- 
times ternate, sometimes quite undivided. It would also 
appear to vary in the colour of the flowers, for in Paxton they 
are represented and described as pale blue ; inthe plant from 
which the accompanying figure was taken, they are nearly 
white. 
Whatever it may be, it is found in the Garden of the 
Horticultural Society, where our drawing was made in Sep- 
tember, 1846, to be perfectly hardy if trained against a wall 
