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Jasminum. — DIANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 93 
climb. It is the first simple-leaved Indian Jasmine I have 
found which has not that habit. Is a native of the hills near 
Chittagong, where it flowers in April and May; may be 
readily known, without any other mark, by the great number 
of flo#ers which form the little dense corymbs: 
7. J. trinerve, Vahl. Symb. 3. p. 2. 
Scandent, polished. » Leaves ovate-lanceolate, long-acu- 
‘minate, three-nerved, polished. Flowers axillary and ter-. 
minal, solitary. _Calyeine segments six or seven, subulate ; 
those of - corol six or a es and longer dent 
the long tube. 
_ Avnative of f the forests near Sitht; where it blossoms i in 
March and April, and the berries ripen in June. : 
» Stem and» branches together, some fathoms in extent, 
running up, and over large shrubs and trees. Bark of the 
old woody parts ash-coloured and rather rough ; tender shoots 
polished, deep green, Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-lan- 
ceolate, long, fine-pointed, firm and glossy, three-nerved, 
three or four inches long; and one or one and a half broad. 
-Petioles short, with a remiarkable joint near the middle, 
_ Flowers’ terminal and: axillary, solitary, sub-sessile, very 
large, white ond sweetly fragrant. Calyx with a short, 
‘smooth tube, border of about six subulate segments which 
are nearly half the length of the tube of the corol. Cordl; 
tube long, widening above the middle for the stamina ; border 
of six to eight slender, spreading segments, which are an 
inch and a half in length. Filament short, Anthers linear, — 
lodged about the middle of the tube of the corol. Germ 
‘oval, two-lobed, two-celled, with one ovulum in each, attach- 
ed to othe — bso a of the tube of - 6 corel. 
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