Tas. 6719. 
JASMINUM rtoripum. 
Native of Japan and China. 
Nat. Ord. OLEAcER.—Tribe JaAsMINER. 
Genus Jasminum, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 674.) 
JasMInuM floridum; fruticosum, suberectum, glaberrimum, ramulis angulatis, 
foliis 3-foliolatis pinnatisve foliolis acuminatis y. apiculatis coriaceis enerviis 
marginibus obscure scaberulis costa valida, foliolo terminali ovato: paulo majore, 
lateralibus ellipticis v. rarius obovatis sessilibus v. subpetiolulatis, cymis sub- 
erectis paucifloris, floribus pedicellatis, calycis glaberrimi lobis tubo 5-costato 
equilongis setaceis, corolle auree tubo calyce 4-plo longiore, limbi lobis 5 
ovatis subacutis. 
J. floridum, Bunge Enum, Pl. Chin. p. 42; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 313 ; Miquel 
Prolus. Fl. Jap. pp, 151,559; Franch. et Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 314. 
J. Subulatum, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, Append. n.58; DC. 7. ce. p. 312. 
This yellow-flowered Jasmine belongs to a group of 
Asiatic forms of which G. humile, Linn., is the type, the 
latter a plant to which many supposed Indian species have 
been referred by Clarke in the “ Flora of British India” 
(vol. iii. p. 602). It differs from that plant (see Plate 1731) 
in the rarely pinnate leaves, smaller flowers, and slender 
calyx-teeth. It was discovered by Bunge during his 
journey to China, and published by him in 1831; but his 
description seems to have been overlooked by Lindley, who 
gave a curt diagnosis of it in the Appendix to the Botanical 
Register in 1842 under the name of J. subulatum. The 
plant was introduced from China by the Hon. W. Fox 
Strangways, afterwards Earl of Ilchester, an ardent 
horticulturist, whose garden at Abbotsbury in Dorset-. 
shire was famous for its collection of rare and interesting 
plants. Besides authentic specimens collected by Bunge 
himself, there are other North China ones in the Kew 
- Herbarium from Fortune and Bretschneider, and Japanese 
ones from the Herbarium of Leyden. 
J. subulatum grows freely on a south wall at Kew, 
without protection, and flowers in July. 
OCTOBER Ist, 1883, 
