mill am, &c., of Parkiiison, the name being derived from 

 tbe Italian for Jessamine. In 1803 Michaux published 

 it as G. nitidum, and in 1786 Poiret as G. hwiduvi, and 

 Alton in 1811 as G. sempervirens. The only other known 

 species is G. elegans, Benth., a native of Burma and China. 



G. se7nj)ervireus is a common plant in the woods and 

 low grounds of 'the Southern United States, from Virginia 

 to Florida, and westward to Texas and Southern Mexico.. 

 Bentley and Trimen include it in their " Medicinal Plants," 

 where the dried stems and roots prepared by the Shakers 

 of New Lebanon are stated to be in common use in America 

 as a sedative. The drug in large doses poisons by asphyxia. 

 It is not recognized in the British Pharmacopoeia. 



The plant figured flowers annually in the winter months 

 in a conservatory in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



Descr. — A slender, glabrous, nearly evergreen, tall, 

 twining climber ; young branches pendulous, bark red- 

 brown. Leaven opposite, one and a half to two and a half 

 inches long, oblong or lanceolate, acuminate, dark green 

 above, pale and somewhat reddish beneath ; petiole very 

 short ; stipules obsolete. Flowers solitary, or two to 

 three on a very short, axillary, scaly, erect peduncle, 

 fragrant, dichogamous, with either short filaments and 

 long style, or vice versa. Calyx short, lobes ovate- lanceo- 

 late. Corolla golden-yellow in bud, paler when expanded ; 

 tube between funnel- and bell-shoped, an inch long, 

 orbicular-ovate. Anthers linear-oblong. Style slender; 

 stigma small, with four linear arms in opposite pairs of 

 unequal length. Capsule elhpsoid, cuspidate, compressed, 

 septicidal. Seeds winged. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, calyx and style; 2, portion of corolla and stamens o£ flower with 

 short filaments ; 3, stamen ; 4, ovary ; 5, stigma :~-all enlarged. 



