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JASMINUM wnuprirLtorvum. 
Naked-flowering Jasmine. 
nonlipeahinan eet rilitcain nll Glipatamtomegs 
Nat. Ord. Jasminrm.—Dranpria Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char, Flores: Calyx campanulatus, 5-8-lobus, dentibus nunc brevibus 
nunc subulatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha ; ¢udo tereti; limbo plano, 5—8-par- 
tito ; lobis obliquis, per estivationem contortis. Stamina 2, tubo adnata, inclusa. 
Ovarium bilobum. Stylus simplex, apice bilobus. Bacca didyma, loculis 
l-spermis (in J. dispermo solum dispermis). Semina erecta, exalbuminosa.— 
Frutices plerique gerontogei, dumosi aut scandentes. Folia opposita, rarius alterna, 
omnia composita, petiolo nune medio articulato et foliolum unicum gerente, nunc 
foliola plura numero imparia 3-7 gerentia et tune ideo Solium trifoliatum aut 
imparipinnatum. Panicule pauci- aut multiflore. Corolle flave aut alba, sepe 
extus rubentes. 
JASMINUM nudiflorum ; ramis angulatis vimineis, foliis hysterantheis trifoliolatis 
glabris (ciliatis), foliolis ovatis acutis, floribus (luteis) solitariis basi squa- 
matis, calycis laciniis linearibus herbaceis, corolla limbo 6-lobo obtusis- 
simo. Lindl. 
JASMINUM nudiflorum. Lindl. in Journ.’ of Hort. Soc. v. 1. p. 158. Bot. Reg. 
1846. ¢.°48. 
One of the many interesting discoveries in China of Mr. 
Fortune on his first visit to that country, though not then a new 
discovery ; for, according to Dr. Lindley, it had been distributed 
ma dried state from the Imperial Russian Chinese Herbarium 
under the erroneous name of J. angulare, a species of the Cape 
— Hope, with white flowers growing on the peduncles in 
es. : 
When first described by Dr. Lindley, in the valuable journal 
of the Horticultural Society of London, it was considered a 
valuable greenhouse plant, a winter bloomer, and pines a 
flower for a length of time. But in the ‘ Botanical Register’ the 
further information was given that it was likely to prove hardy ; 
for “this species,” writes Mr. Fortune, “was first discovered in 
gardens and nurseries in the north of China, particularly about — 
Shanghae, Loo-chou, and Nanking. It is a very ornamental 
dwarf shrub, and I have no doubt of its being perfectly hardy in — 
MAY Ist, 1852, 
