this country (England). It is deciduous ; the leaves falling off 
in its native country early in autumn, and leaving a number of 
large prominent flower-buds, which expand in early spring, often 
when the snow is on the ground, and look like little primroses.” 
Nothing can be more accurate than this statement. The shrub 
proves perfectly hardy; it flowers in the middle of winter (our 
drawing was made from a plant on the open wall in December, 
1851), and the fallen blossoms on the frosty and snowy ground 
look like primroses. It is to be regretted that the foliage, 
scanty at best, does not appear at the same time with the leaves. 
Our specimen, not fully developed, was drawn in April. The 
plant is, like other Jasmines, easily propagated by layers or 
cuttings. 
Descr. A twiggy shrub, from four to eight feet high, with 
long, opposite, dark-green dranches, exactly quadrangular, the 
angles somewhat winged. eaves opposite, petiolate, trifoliolate. 
Petiole rather shorter than the leaves. Leaflets ovate, the middle 
somewhat obovate, acute, glabrous, ciliated. Mowers lateral, 
opposite, solitary, arising from scaly buds, on short rather thick 
petioles. Scales ovate-acuminate, tinged with brown. Calyx 
with a short ¢w4e, the /imé cut into six, spreading, linear, acute 
segments. Corolla full yellow, hypocrateriform ; the ‘wée slightly 
widened upwards; /imé spreading horizontally, of five, obovate 
or obcordate, slightly-waved segments. Stamens two, inserted 
above the middle of the tube of the corolla, and quite included. 
Filaments very short. Anthers oblong-sagittate. Ovary globose. 
Style longer than the tube of corolla, a little thickened upwards. 
Stigma globose, emarginate. 
Fig. 1. Pedunele, calyx, and pistil. 2. Tube of the corolla laid open:— 
magnified. 
