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Jasminum auriculatum Vahl. Leaves trifoliate, pairs of leaves 

 at right angles. 



Habitat Common in India and the East-Indies. 

 Coll. November 1896. 



I. On a stout axillary shoot the first pair of leaves consisted 

 of an uni-foliolate and a bifoliolate leaf. 

 II. Another branch bore a pair of leaves, of v^hich the lateral 



leaflets were defective (fig. 78). 

 III. Branch with irregularly alternate leaves. Moreover the 

 leaves are very unequal as is shown in the added figure 

 (79). Whether or not the left lateral leaflet of the lowest 

 leaf was present, cannot be stated with certainty. 



Jasminum buxifolium Rxb. Phyllotaxy: pairs at right angles. 

 Leaves simple. 



Habitat"? 



Coll. November 1896. 



I. Young stout stem with irregularly alternate leaves, not 

 until near the top of the still growing shoot do the normal 

 pairs make their appearance, although preceded by a whorl 

 of three. 

 11. In the middle of a stem with normally arranged leaves 

 two abnormal pairs are to be seen. Of the lower pair one 

 of the leaves has a double apex, of the other pair one 

 leaf is bifid and inserted 15 mM. higher than its fellow. 



Jasminum quiiiquenervium Bl. Leaves in pairs at right angles. 



Habitat Java. 



Coll. November 1896. 



In the middle of a stout stem with opposite leaves there are 

 5 pairs having their leaves at different heights. The greatest 

 distance is 13 mM. 



Jasminum spec. 



Coll. November 1896. 



I. Stem on which the lowest 7 leaves are alternate, after 



which a whorl of three, then again four alternate and only 



then the normal pairs at right angles. 



