96 DIANDRIA MONOGYNTA. Jasminum. 
or twelve feet. “Leaves opposite, rarely three-fold, or alter- 
nate, short-petioled, dvaredordutel ‘acuminate ; margins en- 
tire, and often waved, smooth on both sides; toni two to four 
inches long, and from one to three broad. Petioles chan- 
nelled, jointed near the middle. /owers on terminal, tri- 
chotomous, three-flowered peduncles, often forming large, — 
corymbiform panicles; they are large, white, and very fra- 
grant. Bractes subulate, villous. Calyx crowned with five 
or six subulate, meurved, villous divisions. Corol; tube 
longer than the calyx. Border of ten or twelve, somewhat _ 
acute, linear divisions. Anthers ovate, within the tube. 
Germ turbinate, two-lobed, two-celled, with one ovulum in 
each, attached to the upper part of the partition. Stigma 
two-lobed, about half way up the tube of the corol. , 
Obs. This species is nearly allied to my J. latifolium, and 
indeed the only specific difference I have yet been able to ob- 
serve, is, that this species has no einstein to twine or = 4 
that is twining. 
TJ. angustifolium. Vahl. en. pl. 1. 29. Linn, sp. wie ed. 
Willd. 1.36. 
 Shrubby, twining; polished. Leaves opposite, vest 
ovate, smooth, of a shming dee oreen. Flowers hesanenior 
ovate, i ag 
Nyctanthes triflora, Burm. =. 4. t 2: 
J: vimineam. Willd. toe. eit. 
Mu ot, Mal 8: p98. 1.59, 
e's is much like Burman’s figure quoted above, but docs _ 
‘not accord with his character of alternate leaves ; it is very 
common, and at the same time one of the most beautiful spe- 
cies of Jasmine T know. It abounds in every forest on the 
coast of Coromandel. Blossoms during the hot season ; but 
best a State of cultivation o— are “ati the greatest = 
2 ereree twining, smooth. 
