Tas. 6559. 
JASMINUM Goraciitimum. 
Native of Borneo. 
Nat. Ord. Orgacem.—Tribe JasMINER. 
Genus Jasminum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 274.) 
JASMINUM gracillimum; patenti-hirsutum, ramis elongatis gracillimis teretibus 
decurvis, foliis 1-1}-pollicaribus oppositis breviter petiolatis ovato-cordatis 
acutis v. acuminatis subtus hirsutis, paniculis globosis densifloris pendulis, 
floribus breviter pedicillatis albis suaveolentibus, corolla alba, tubo lobis caly- 
cinis filiformibus patentim pilosis subduplo longiore, limbi 1} poll. diametr. 
lobis ad 9 elliptico-lanceolatis acutis, 
J. gracillimum, Hook. f. in Gard. Chron. 1881, p. 9, eum Ie. Xylog. 
A very near ally of the well-known Jasminum pubescens 
of India and China, which is the type around which are to 
be ranged a good many closely-allied species, differing in 
habit, in the amount of pubescence, and in the size and 
number of flowers, and of the divisions of the corolla, all 
of them natives of Eastern Asia and its islands. Of these, 
J. gracillimum is one of the most distinct in its graceful 
habit and in the abundance of its large sweet-scented 
drooping flowers, which are also more copiously produced, 
im which respects I know of none to compare with it. It 
appears to be a small species; the pot-plant exhibited by 
Messrs. Veitch at the Royal Horticultural Society, and 
which was in full flower, was about three feet high, 
branched from the base, the long very slender branches ' 
Springing from low down on the stem and curving over 
on all sides, weighted down by terminal globose panicles 
as large as the fist. : 
J. gracillimum is a native of Northern Borneo, where it 
was discovered by Mr. Burbidge (the author of the charm- 
ing little work on that island, recently published under the 
title of “The Gardens of the Sun”’) when collecting for 
Messrs. Veitch, with whom the plant flowered last December. 
MAY Ist, 1881. 
