Tab. 7851. 



GELSEMIUM sempeevikens. 



Natiiw of the Southern United States. 



Nat. Ord. Loganiacb^.— Tribe Gelsemiejs. 

 G. nils Gelsemium, Juss.; {JDentli. & Eook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 789). 



Gelsehium semper viretis ; frutex volubilis, alte scandens, gracilis, glaberri- 

 mus, fere sernpervirens, ramulis peridulis fnsco-rubris, foliia i|-2 poll, 

 longis oppositis breviter petiolatia oblongia v. laaceolatis acuminati« 

 supra luride viridibos subtus pallidis rubro tinctis, stipulis obsoletia, 

 peduticulia axilkribus vix i poll, longis 1-3-floris squamulosis, floribus 

 erectia dichogamis, calycis i poll, longi lobis ovato-lanceolatis, corollse 

 aureae tubo poUicari infundibulari-campanulato lobis tabo brevioribus 

 patulia ovato-rotundatia obtasis, staminibua tubocorollaj inaertis, ant'ieria 

 lineari-oblongis, stylo elongate, stigmate brevi bilabiato labile inaeqaalibua 

 2-lobi3, lobis linearibus, capsula ellipsoidea compressa cuspidata septicida, 

 valvia apice bifidis, seminibus alatig. 



G. sernpervirens, Ait. Sort. Kew. Ed. II. vol. ii. p. 64. Elliot, Sketch Hot. 8. 

 Carol, &a., vol. i. p. 311. Mesh. Fl. U. St. t. 3. Rep. U. St. Dep. Agric. 

 1884, p. 134, t. 16. A. Gray Man. Bat. N. U. St. (Ed. 1867) p. ii91 ; 

 S,>/nopt. Fl. N. Am. voL ii. pars I. p. 107. Chapm. Fl. S. U. St. p. 183. 

 Hemsl. Biol. Cent?: Am. vol. ii. p. 338. 



G. lucidum, Poir. Eneycl. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 714. Delaun. Rerb. Amaf. (1819) 

 vol. iii. t. 169, 



G. nitidum, Michx. Ft. Bor. Am. vol. i. (1803) p. 120. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 

 vol. i. p. 184. Bentl. & Trim. Med. PI. vol. iii. p. 181, t. 181. 



Jeffeesonia sernpervirens, BricheH in Med. Bepos. N, York, v^l. L (1800) 

 p. 555. 



BiGENONiA sernpervirens, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 623. 



BiGNOxiA foliis ovato-lanceolatis, &o., Boy^n, Fl. Leyd. Prodr. p. 290. 



Gelseminum, sive Jasminum lateum odoratum, Parkins. Theatr. Bui. p. 



1465. Gatesb. Nat. Hist. Carolin., &c., vol. i. p. 53, t. 53. /Jay, i/iv/. 



Plant, vol. ii. p. 1600. 

 Syringa volubilis virginiana, &c. PluJc. Almag. p. 359, t. 11'2, fig- 5. 

 Auonymos sernpervirens, Walt. Fl. Carolin. p. 98. 

 The Carolina Jasmine, or yellow Jessamine of the Soutliera U. States. 



It is remarkable that so handsome a greenhouse cHraber, 

 and one that has been so long in cultivation, should not 

 have been figured in any modern English horticultural 

 work. It was introduced into England by Tradescant, was 

 cultivated by Parkinson in his garden in Long Acre in 

 1640, and figured in his " Theatrum Botanicum " in the 

 same year. 



The genus Gelseminm was founded in 1789, by Jussieu, 

 on Bignonia sernpervirens, Linn., the Gelseminum^ sive Jas- 



August 1st, 1902. 



