164 DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ` - Jasminum. 
considerable extent, sending forth fascicled, sometimes single, oppo- 
` site or alternate branches from each joint, which scarcely rise four, 
inches above the surface on which the plant grows.— Stems thread-like, 
pubescent, with four or five furrows ; branches once or twice sub- —— 
divided into small opposite branchlets.— Leaves generally quatem, 
rarely tern, four or five lines in length, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 
shining and somewhat concave above, with copious short hairs below, — 
. slightly ciliated, without veins or ribs, and losing even the three pale- — 
coloured nerves when dry; the lowest verticils many times, the others 
twoorthree times shorter than the interstices between the joints.— 4 
Leaves of the young shoots linear-oblong, measuring sometimes an 2 | 
inch in length. —Petiols very short, villous, erect, with a gland-like $^ 
body in their axils, villous — Spike terminal, very slender, from an E 
inch to an inch and a half long, round, villous, excavated on its sure — 
face with innumerable small pores in which the flowers are loath A 
ona peduncle about half.its length... . : 
— Obs. All. the parts of this elegant little species Jae a faint pun- : 
ees taste. I have not been able hitherto to examine its ipu of 
fructification in a satisfactory manner. : à 
Addition to Jasminum heterophyllum, p. 99. —By. N N. Wh 9 
. Since the above page was printed I have through the kindness of : 
‘the Honourable Mr. Gardner been favored with flowering speci- 2 
mens of that interesting species which have enabled me to add the D 
following description. | 
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- J. heterophyllum. R. 
Arboreous. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple or ternate, from obi 
-Tong to broad ovate, acuminate, waved, lucid, firm. — Panicles | ter- " 
minal, spreading, trichotomous, fastigitate.—Calyz . urceolate wih 
` subulate teeth.— Segments of the corol ORRE, equalling the tube: 
Nepala names, Gooje. and Javana. 
It grows to be a midling- sized tree with long branches which. have 
_a téndency to become rambling. Leartes varying so much in size; 3 
“well às figure, as to appear to jore? to Meno mos ME m 
