JASMINEACEZ. 
girded by any disk, 2-celled; cells 1-seeded; ovula erect. 
Style 1; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a didymous berry or a bipar- 
tible capsule. Albumen sparing or wanting. Embryo straight, 
with an inferior radicle.—Usually twining shrubs. Leaves op- 
posite, simple, but often compound, either ternate or impari- 
pinnate; having the petioles in most of the species articulated. 
Flowers opposite, disposed in corymbs. 
This order differs sufficiently from Oleince in the situation of 
the ovula, structure of the seeds, as also in the division and esti- 
vation of the corolla; but it agrees with it in the corolla being 
regular and diandrous, and in the fruit being either baccate or 
capsular, but scarcely in habit. In Nyctdnthes the mature seeds 
have hardly any albumen, while it is copious in the immature 
seeds. Fragrance is the predominant property of the Jasmine 
tribe, and has made it for ages the favourite of poets and of the 
people: this fragrance arises from an oil, which can be extracted 
so as to retain its perfume. 
Synopsis of the genera. 
i Jasmrnum. Corolla 4-8-cleft (f. 11. b. f. 10. a.). 
didymous. Seeds without albumen. 
2 NvcrA'NTHES. Calyx entire. 
Seeds albuminous. 
Berry 
Corolla 5-lobed. Capsule 
bipartite. 
I. JASMI NUM (Linnezus derives this name from ta, ia, a 
violet and oopn, osme, smell; but the scent of the flowers has 
no resemblance to that of the violet.) Forskoel. egyp. arab. 
p.59. says that the Arabs call it Jasmin (ysmym).) Dodon. 
pempt. p. 1557. Tourn. inst. 368. Lin. gen.no. 17. Juss. 
gen. 106. R. Br. prod. p. 521. Gaertn. fruct. 1. p. 196. t. 42. 
Lam. ill. t. 7.— Mogórium, Lam. 
Lin. syst.  Diándria, Monogynia. 
toothed or 5 (f. 11. b.) -8 (f. 10. a.) -cleft. Corolla 5 (f. 11. b. 
f. 10. a.) -8-cleft. Stigma 2-lobed or bifid. Berry didymous, 
having one of the lobes usually abortive. Seeds without albu- 
men.—Usually twining shrubs. Leaves simple or compound ; 
petioles articulated. Flowers white or yellow. 
Calyx cleft. 
1 J. Sa’mpac (Ait. hort. kew.1. p. 8.) twining ; leaves almost 
sessile, membranous, from cordate to oblong, acute or obtuse, 
glabrous; calycine segments 5-9, subulate; berries globular; 
branches, petioles, and peduncles downy. h.%™.S. Native of 
the East Indies. Desf. ann. mus. 4. p. 20. Sims, bot. mag. 
1785. Ker. bot. reg. t. 1. Mogórium, Sámbac. Lam. dict. 4. 
p. 210. J.gímea, Zucc.? Nyctanthes Sambac, Lin. spec. 1. 
p. 8.—Burm. zeyl. p. 128. t. 58. f. 2. Leaves waved, and 
sometimes scolloped, smooth, except while young, but there are 
generally tufts of down in the axils of the veins beneath. 
Flowers generally forming small trichotomous umbellets, white, 
fragrant. Berries black. From this species we have the com- 
mon double, and rose or great flowered, and full Moogaries 
(Arabian or Tuscan jasmines.) "These are always raised from 
layers, even in India, and have been improved by culture. The 
plant that bears the common double sort still retains its twining 
habit, but it is lost in the great rose, or full-flowered sort: here 
the branches are erect or spreading, but never twining. The 
Nyctánthes undulata, Willd. spec. 2. p. 8. is probably nothing 
but a variety of J. Sdémbac. 
Var. a, Single-flowered Arabian jasmine. J. undulàtum, 
Willd. spec. 1. p. 36. Mállica and Asphota, Asiat. res. 4. p. 
245.—Rheed. mal. 6. p. 97. t. 55. 
Calyx tubular, 5-8- 
* Leaves simple. 
I. Jasminum. 59 
Var. B, Double-flowered Arabian jasmine. J. Sámbac, var. 
flore pleno, Andr. bot. rep. 497.—Rheed. mal. 6. p. 87. t. 50. 
— Burm. zeyl. 128. t. 58. f. 2.—Rumph. amb. 5. p. 52. t. 30. 
Var. y, Great double Arabian or Tuscan jasmine. J. Sambac, 
Ker. bot. reg. 497.—Rheed. mal. 6, p. 89. t. 51. 
Var. à, trifoliàtum; leaves 3 in a whorl; flowers double. 
Nyctánthes grandiflora, Lour. coch. p. 21. Nyct. trifoliàta, 
Vahl. enum. 1. p. 26. 
Sambac or Arabian Jasmine. Fl. year. Clt. 1665. Sh. tw. 
2 J. QUINQUEFLÒRUM (Heyne, herb. ex Wall. cat. no. 2878.) 
branches, peduncles, calyxes, and petioles downy ; leaves ob- 
long, sometimes short-acuminated, always mucronate; calycine 
segments 8, long-subulate; corolla almost semi-double, of many 
lanceolate segments ; peduncles terminal, 3-5-flowered. h. S. 
Native of the East Indies, at Gongachora and Patna. J. san- 
jorium, Hamilt. mss. Flowers white. Nearly allied to J. Sámbac. 
Var. B, pubéscens ; leaves rounded; plant more downy ; co- 
rola with fewer segments. kh. VS. Native of the East 
Indies, at Mongger. J. pubéscens, Hamilt. mss. ex Wall. cat. 
no. 2880. 
F'ive-flowered Jasmine. Shrub cl. 
3 J. sca'NpENs (Vahl. symb. bot. 3. p. 2. enum. 1. p. 27.) 
twining, glabrous; leaves cordate, ovate-oblong, entire, acu- 
minated, shining; corymbs globular, terminal, trichotomous ; 
calycine segments 6-7, bristle-shaped, hairy ; segments of co- 
rola 6-8, lanceolate, very acute, almost the length of tube. 
h. ©. S. Native of the East Indies, particularly in Bengal, 
Chittagong, and Java.  Nyctánthes scándens, Rets. obs. 5. 
p. 9. Mogórium scandens, Lam. dict. 4. p. 210.  Peduncles 
and pedicels short, villous as well as the calyxes. Flowers pure 
white, delightfully fragrant. 
Climbing Jasmine. Fl. July. Clt. 1820. Shrub twining. 
4 J. cua‘srum (Horsfield ex Link. jahrb. 1-3. H. p. 31. 
Blum. bijdr. p. 679.) scandent ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, 
downy on the margins and the ribs beneath, as well as the pe- 
tioles and branchlets; peduncles axillary ; calycine segments 
subulate, downy. kh. VJ. S. Native of Java, about Batavia. 
Corolla of 9 narrow segments. Branches terete. 
Glabrous Jasmine. Shrub cl. 
5 J. eLoNca'ruM (Vahl. enum. 1. p. 28. Willd. spec. 1. 
p. 37.) climbing, villous ; leaves opposite or alternate, lanceolate 
or ovate-oblong ; corymbs trichotomous; segments of corolla 
8-12, linear; calyx 5-6-cleft: segments subulate. kh. u. S. 
Native of the East Indies, in forests near the mouth of the 
Hoogly, in Bengal, and of Java. Nyctanthes elongata, Lin. syst. 
56. suppl. 82. Berg. act.angl. 1772. p. 290. t. 11. J. Roxburgh- 
iànum, Wall. cat. no. 2870. Flowers pretty large, pure white, 
fragrant. Pedicels clavate. Corolla having the tube much swelled 
towards the mouth, and with the edges of the segments revolute. 
Var. B; leaves all somewhat cordate at the base, smoothish 
above. k. S. Native of Java, about Linga Jattie, at the 
foot of Mount Tjerimai, among bushes. Blum. bijdr. p. 678. 
Elongated Jasmine. Fl. April, May. Clt.1820. Shrub cl. 
6 J. crABmivscuLUM (Blum. bijdr. p. 679.) subscandent ; 
leaves opposite, rarely alternate, ovate, acuminated, rounded at 
the base, glabrous, downy on the ribs beneath, as well as the 
branchlets ; cymes terminal, undivided ; calycine segments su- 
bulate. kh. |. S. Native of Java, about Linga Jattie, among 
bushes, in the province of Cheribon. Nearly allied to J. elon- 
gatum. 
Smoothish Jasmine. Fl. year. Shrub cl. 
7 J. puse'scens (Willd. spec. 1. pi 37.) sarmentose, downy ; 
leaves cordate, mucronate, tomentose beneath and on the pe- 
tioles, at length naked above: the upper ones forming an invo- 
lucrum round the umbel; umbels terminal, sessile ; calyx of 6-8 
plumose, filiform segments ; segments of corolla 6-9, lanceolate, 
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