Jasminum, DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. $3 
Jasmine. In Bengal they blossom during the cool, and the begin- 
ning of the hot. scason ; the seed ripen.in April. 
_ Stem scarcely any ; branches numerous, ligneous, climbing and twin- 
ing, extending up and over trees of considerable size; tender parts 
round, and clothed with much, very soft, short, pale green down.— - 
Leaves simple, opposite, short-petioled, ovate-oblong, acute, entire, 
dewny, two or three inches long, and one or two broad.— Flowers 
numerous, pretty large, white, casei, ia terminal fascicles of ge- 
nerally three, or five, subsessile ones, or growing on short, axillary 
branchlets ; ;embraced by one, « or two Annot juge bries: aud d by a 
greater number, sien the fines: 1 e : 
in Opposite: pairs of F thie fowered pea eee 
always two, generally unequal pairs, of an ovate-cordat 
under each fascicle, and some small subulate ones within them, 2 
all villous, like every other tender part of the plant.—Calyx dow- 
ny. Tube short. Segments five, six,or seven, subulate.— Corol smooth. 
_ Tube twice the length of the calyx, sub-cylindric. Border of from 
five to eight, oblong segments, rounded at the apex, with a small 
Pont in the middle.— Germ two-celled, one ovula in each. Style 
longer than the tube of the corol. Stigma entire, linear, with a Eolo. 
on « each side.— Berries one or two, united from the middle dow 
size of a large pea, oval, smooth, succulent, and of a 
olour when ripe; one-celled.— Seed single, oval. Indeguments — 
“two; exterior composed of woolly fibres ; inner thinner and more 
tender, both dark Areni R Puspen. 
Cotyledonsconform: tothe mete grati, Pisis two-lob z 
e inferior, |. 
“9-5. latifolium. Ro 5 
- Shrubby, twining. - Leaves opposite, CER cordate. Ci ] 
timini, | calycine segments from five to seven, subulate ; those | 
rol from. ten to twelve, inest, aud cuspidate, 
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