Lis C -DIANDRTA MONOGYNIA. Jasminum. A 
of from ‘six to twelve, linear, spreading divi with margins revo- —— 
ute. — Filaments short. Anthers lodgéd just within the mouth of the "d 
tube of the corol.— Geri turbinate. Style so long as to elevate the - 
two lobed: stigma so as to make it level with the anthers. 
Obs. Fhe species differs ffom my arborescens in being scandent, and | 
in the shape of the leaves, as well as in the pubescence ; here they 
are — -— villeus ; there cordate and — 
a J. "pubescens. Linn. Spec. Pt. ed. Willd.1. 37. = T 
Leaves cordate, dow ny. Umbels terminal, sessile many floweredy 
Katu-Tsjiregam-Mulla. Rheed. mal. 6. p.95. 1. 54. 
Nyctanthes multiflora. Burm. Flor. Ind. p. 5. t. 8. f. 1. : 
Nyctanthes pubescens. Retz. obs. 5.'9.* d 
Sans. Bra Madri tS: , Koondum. See As. Res. 4. 244. 
- “Beng. Koonda. : 2 
A very ramous shrub, brought originally frein China into the Com- 
“pany’s Botanic Garden. It is also indigenous in Bengal. Is im 
flower during the rains chiefly. - om AER 
‘Stem scarcely any; branches numerous, covered with ash-coloured — : 
bark; the young parts very downy.— Leaves opposite, short-pe- 
tioled, cordate, entire, downy, particularly while young; the termi- — 
nal ones crowded (involucre-like) round the umbels.— Umbeis ter- $ 
minal, sessile, tending to be trichotomous, containing from ten to e 
thirty, sessile flowers; downy in all parts.— Voters large, pure | 
white fragrant.— Bractes few, lanceolate.— Calyx six-cleft ; border 
of. the orol from six to. ‘nine-parted ; divisions lanceolate —Stamens 
within the tube.  Anthers beaked.— Germ two-lobed, two-celled, 
with one ovula i in each, MEE to the pne e. of the ori 
Stigma enure, clubbed. ; 
Obs. This is a goodly looking plant, its numerous, ae pure 
white, fiint flower, oper ning in succession make it = desitoble- 
awd, hirsutum, $m. Exot, Bot. ii, 117. t. „uns. E smulforum, An Ans. Repos vile 
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