Jasminum. | XCII. OLEACE&. (C. B. Clarke.) | 608 
42, J. officinale, Linn.; DC. Prodr. vii. 313; glabrous or nearly so, 
leaves opposite pinnate, leaflets rhomboid oblong acute, calyx-teeth linear long, 
corolla white tube 2 in. Bot. Mag. t. 31; Brand. For. Fl. 818; Boiss. FI 
Orient. iv. 43. 
Kasumir ; alt. 3-9000 ft., frequent.—Disrri. Cabul, Persia (often cultivated in 
India, China, Europe, &c.). 
Branches very long, weak, requiring support, hardly scandent. Cymes terminal, 
1-10-flowered, often leafy ; bracts 4 in., linear; pedicels 0-3 in. Calyx-teeth 4-3 in., 
sometimes as long as the corolla-tube, sometimes (in the same plant) not half so long. 
Corolla-lobes 4 by 1 in. Carpels 4 by } in., ellipsoid. 
43. J. grandiflorum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. viii. 313; glabrous or nearly 
so, leaves opposite pinnate, leaflets rhomboid-oblong, calyx-teeth linear long, 
corolla white tube 2 in. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. 
i. 98; Bot. Reg. t. 91; Wall. Cat. 2885; Wight Ic. t. 1257 ; Brand. For. Fl. 
318; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 150, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 242. J. aureum, 
Don Prodr. 106; DC. l. e. 314 ?.—Rheede Hort. Mal. vi. t. 52. 
SUBTROPICAL NogTH-wxsT HiwALAYA, alt. 225000 ft. ; frequent, wild (fide Brandis ; 
elsewhere in India often cultivated). 
Branches subpendent, angular, hardly requiring support. Calyx-teeth about } in., 
rarely half as long as the corolla-tube.  Corolla-lobes attaining } in.— Otherwise 
hardly distinguishable from J. officinale. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES (not British Indian). 
J. exrensum, Wall, Cat. 2862; DC. Prodr, viii. 808; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 150.— 
Birma. 
J. LIGUSTRIFOLIUM, Wall. ms.; Bojer Hort. Maurit, 204, DC. Prodr. viii. 305.— 
Birma, beyond the British frontier. 
J. TUBIFLORUM, Roxb, Cat. Pl. (1813), Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 4 Wall. i. 96.—This is 
supposed to be the origin of J. sorgxAxTHUM, DC. Prodr. viii. 306, founded on a 
specimen cultivated in the Mauritius. Malay Islds. 
J. oBLoNGuM, Burm. Fl. Ind. 6, t. 3, ig. 2; DC. Prodr. viii. 312.— Java. 
2, NYCTANTHES, Linn. in part. 
A small tree. Leaves opposite, ovate. Flowers in small, sessile, bracteate 
heads disposed in terminal trichotomous cymes. Calyx ovoid-cylindric, 
subtruncate, finally split or deciduous. Corolla salvershaped ; tube cylindric, 
yellow ; lobes 4-8, imbricated in bud, patent, white. Anthers 2, subsessile near 
the top of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled ; style cylindric, very shortly bifid ; 
ovule 1 in each cell, erect, basal. Capsule orbicular, compressed parallel to 
the partition, ripe separating into 2 subdiscoid carpels. Seed erect, orbicular, 
flattened, testa thin, albumen 0; cotyledons flat, radicle inferior. 
N. Arbor-tristis, Linn.; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 9, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & 
Wall. i. 85; Wall. Cat. 2846; Bot. Reg. t. 399; Lamk. Ill. t.6; DC. Prodr. 
viii. 314; Bot. Mag. t. 4900; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 240; Eichler in Mart. Bras. 
vi. pt. i. 817, t. 84, fig. 3; Brand. For. Fl. 314; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 155, and in 
Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii, 240. Parilium Arbor-tristis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 234, t. 
51. Scabrita scabra, Linn. ; Vahl Symb. ii. 98; Gaertn. Fruct, ii. 266, t. 198. 
S. triflora, Linn. Mant. i. 37.—Rheede Hort. Mal. i.t. 91  Sephalica, Jones in 
As. Research. iv. 244. 
CENTRAL INDIA, alt. 1-3000 ft., common, to Bundelkund and Burdwan ; reappear- 
ing in the Oudh and North-west Terai (cultivated throughout India, and in both 
hemispheres). 
