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Jasminum. ] SCH, OLEACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 591 
TRIBE IV. Oleinese. Fruit a drupe or berry. Corolla small. Radicle 
superior (except Myxopyrum). 
* Corolla-lobes imbricate ; seeds albuminous, 
Flowers fascicled or in very short racemes . e . . . . . . 6. OswANTHUS. 
** Corolla-lobes valvate or petals distinct in pairs or 0. 
Petals in pairs or distinct or very shortly united into a tube, in- 
florescence axillary "s Pe ee er 0 77 
Corolla tubular or 0, inflorescence axillary except in O. glanduli- 
HN. vo orc CEDE MM i 8. OLEA. 
Panicles terminal . Rows ne» Ra MINER i. 9. LIGUSTRUM. 
Large scandent shrubs, leaves 3-nerved . . . . . . . . . 10. Myxopyrum. 
1. JASMINUM, Linn. 
Shrubs, scandent or erect. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple 3-foliolate 
or unequally pinnate; petiole nearly always articulated. Cymes 3- or 2-choto- 
mous, simple or flowers rarely solitary ; bracts linear and small, or ovate, some- 
times petaloid. Calyx 4-9-fid, tube funnel-shaped rarely subcylindric, teeth 
linear wea or short or 0. Corolla salver-shaped, white pink or yellow, tube 
narrow, lobes 4-10, patent, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, included in the 
corolla-tube, filaments very short; anther oblong, connective usually shortly 
roduced and triangular. Ovary 2-celled; style cylindric, stigmas 2 linear, 
ong or short or subcombined ; ovules 2 in each cell, near the base. Berry 
didymous, or often, by suppression, simple ; carpels globose ellipsoid or elongate. 
Seed in each carpel 1, rarely 2, erect, exalbuminous ; radicle inferior — DISTRIB. 
Species 90, in the tropics or warm temperate parts of the Old World. 
* Leaves all simple. 
T Calyx pubescent. (The series proceeds from the species with long to those 
with short calyx-teeth.) i 
The species are generally dimorphic, having a long- and a short-styled form : 
Wight founded two species on this solitary character out of J. auriculatum. It has 
not been found practicable to use characters drawn from the style and stigma in the 
discrimination of the species. 
l. J. Sambac, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 8; leaves short-petioled ovate nearly 
glabrous, cymes lax few-flowered, bracts small, calyx-teeth subulate. Bot. Reg. 
t. 1; Bot. Mag. t. 1785; Wall. Cat. 2868; DC. Prodr. viii. 301; Wight Ie. t. 
704; Dalz. E Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brand. For. Fl. 311; Kurz For. Fi. i. 153, 
in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 242. J. fragrans, Salisb. Prodr. 19. J. undula- 
tum, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 36, not of Ker. J. Zambae, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 2, Fl. 
Ind. ed. Carey § Wall. i. 87. J. quinqueflorum, Heyne; Wall. Cat. 2878; 
DC. l.c. 302. J. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 2880, not of Willd. Nyctanthes 
Sambae and undulatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 8. Mogorium Sambae, Lamk. Dict. iv. 
210, IU. t. 6, fig. 1. M. undulatum, Lamk. Dict. iv. 212.—Rheede Hort. Mal. 
vi. tt. 50, 51,55. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 58, fig. 2. Mallica, Asphota and Sup- 
tula, Jones in As. Research. iv. 245. 
Droa, to CrevroN and Dua: alt. 0-2000 ft., common.—DisrRiB, Much cul- 
tivated throughout India, and in the tropies of both hemispheres. 
Seandent; branchlets pubescent. Leaves opposite or sometimes ternate, thinly 
membranous, varying from 1 to 5 in., sometimes on the same bush, acute or obtuse, 
base euneate or rounded, nerves beneath pubescent or glabrous, primary often tufted 
in the axils beneath, secondary nerves distinct; petiole 1 in. Cymes about 3-flowered 
