Tam. 7823. 

 JASMIXUM Maingayi. 

 Native of Penang. 



Nat. Old. OLEACE.ic. — Tribe Jasmine.e. 

 Genus JasMINUM, Linn.; {Benfh. & Hook./. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 674). 



Jasminum Main(fayl\ frutex scandens, gracilis, ramosus, ramnlis superne 

 pedunciilis pedicellia calycibasqiie pubsrulia, foliis superiorilma 

 breviter inferioribus longius petiolatis ovato-oblongis-lanceolatisvo 

 acutis acuminatisve 3-5 poll, longis 1^-2 poll, latis basi acutis rotuuJatis 

 cuneatisve supra saturate viridibus nervis utriuque coatoe 6-8 obscui'is, 

 Bubtus pallidis nervis prominulis, petiolis fusco-viulaceis, cyinis 

 termmalibus sessilibua, pedicellis brevibus erectis, bracteolis parvis 

 liuearibus, calycis tiibo subcampanulato | poll, longo segmentis 

 erectis lanceolatis tubo snbduplo longioribus, corollic tubo pollicari, 

 limbi albi 1^ poll. diam. segmentis 8-10 anguate oblougis acuminati.s, 

 anlheris lineari-oblongia apiculatis, stylo gracili, stigmatis lobis lineari- 

 bus, carpellis maturis solitariia dimidiato-oblongis J poll, longis mono- 

 spermia. 



J. Maingayi, G. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 594. 



Jasminum is exclusively an Old World genns of very 

 wide distribution, from the Azores and Canaries in the 

 West, across Africa and Asia, to the Islands of the 

 Pacific, chiefly in tropical latitudes. India (or perhaps 

 China) is the headquarters of the genus, forty-five 

 of the one hundred and thirty recorded species being 

 described in the "Flora of British India," of which 

 four have been figured in this work; two with entire 

 leaves and white flowers, /. l^amhac, L. t. 1785, and 

 ,/. puhescens, Willd. {hh'siUum, Wiiid. t. 1991) ; and two 

 with pinnatisect leaves, the yellow flowered, J. Jmmile, 

 Linn. (./. revolutum, Sims, t. 1731), and the common 

 white-flowered Jessamine of our gardens, /. ojicinalef 

 Linn. (t. 31). With regard to the last named species, 

 it is a remarkable fact, that for upwards of two hundred 

 and fifty years after its first introduction into English 

 gardens (in 1548) its native country was unknown. 

 i:>ims, in tliis Magazine, in 1787, cites Miller's " Gardener's 

 Dictionary " for its " grooving naturally in Malabar and 

 several parts of India ; " Alton, '* Hortus Kewcnsis " 

 March 1st, 1902. 



