Tas. 4737. 
RHYNCHOSPERMUM.  sasmrno1pes. 
Jasmine-flowered Rhynchospermum. 
Nat. Ord. ApocyNE%.—PENTANDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Gen. Char, Calyx profunde 5-fidus vel sub-5-partitus; tubo campanulato 
basi interne multiglanduloso, glandulis truncatis; lobis oblongis, exstivatione 
valvari? Corolla 5-fida ; tubo cylindraceo, exappendiculato ; Jobis oblique obova- 
tis, estivatione sinistrorsum convolutis et apice inflexis. Stamina 5; filamentis 
cum basi corolla manifeste adnatis; antheris hastatis, medio stigmati adheerenti- 
bus, lobis inferioribus polline destitutis. Nectarium cupuliforme, 5-fidum, lobis 
obtusis. Ovaria 2, nectario longiora. Stylus 1. Stigma oblongum. Folliculi 
elongati, compressi, angusti. Semina plurima, inferne obovata, compressa, superne 
in collum gracile angustata, in comam sericeam desinentia. Aléumen 0. Em- 
éryo rectus; radicula supera, usque ad originem colli extensa; cotyledonibus 
oblongis, radicula triplo longioribus, facie adpressis.—Frutices scandentes Asiatici, 
foliis oppositis, nervulis reticulatis, integris ; cymis terminalibus et awillaribus, mul- 
tifloris. Alph. De Cand. 
RuYNcHOSPERMUM jasminoides ; foliis (parvis) ovato-lanceolatis acutis, corym- 
bis terminalibus axillaribusque folio pluries longioribus, calycis laciniis lan- 
ceolatis ciliatis reflexis, corolle (albex) laciniis obovatis marginibus reflexis 
undulatis, glandulis hypogynis distinctis. 
RHYNCHOSPERMUM jasminoides, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. of Lond. v.1.p. 74. 
cum Ic. xylogr. 
A pretty, white-flowered (consequently making no show on 
paper), evergreen shrub, flowering when young, and even before 
the scandent character appears, with blossoms somewhat resembling 
the common Jasmine, and the scent is equally deliciously fragrant 
with that favourite flower. It is a native of Shanghai, where it 
was collected by Mr. Fortune, and introduced by him to the 
stoves of this country. It differs a good deal in habit from the — 
East Indian Rhynchospermum Wallichii, De Cand. (Echites rhyn- 
chosperma, Wall.), which has large leaves and large pink flowers : 
and Dr. Lindley observes that in habit it is more like an Aganosma, 
but its corolla has not the tapering lobes of that genus, nor does 
the nectary or stigma correspond with it. 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1853. 
