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JASMINUM* Wallichianuni. 

 Dr. WdUicJiS Nipal Jusmine. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. JasminE/T, Jussieu. — {Introduction to the natural system of 

 Botany, p. 222.) 



JASMINUM.—Suprd, vol. \.fol. 1. 



J. Wallichianum ; foliis alternis pinnatis 3-4-jugis cum imparl, foliolis glabris 

 ovatis acutis imparl acumliiato, ramls angulatis, pedunculls axillaribus 

 terminalibusque trifloris corymbosis, calyce dcnticulato, corollie lol)is 

 5-6ve eequalibus rotnndatis tubo trli)15 brevioribus. 

 Frutcx scandens, atroviridis, ramis fiexuosis angulatis. Folia glaher- 



rima, foliolis lateralibus circa uncialibus, impari fere biunciali. Flores 



parvi, lutei. 



A native of Nipal, seeds from which country havini^ 

 been given to Mr. Tate by the Honourable and Reverend 

 William Herbert, grew and produced the plant from which 

 this drawing was taken. 



It is nearly related to Jasminum revolutum, from which 

 it is known by its small-sized flowers, and by the nearly 

 uniform number and figure of its leaves and leaflets, par- 

 ticularly by the terminal leaflet being always much more 

 acuminated than the side ones. When dry it may readily 

 be mistaken for J. revolutum. It has been named in com- 

 pliment to Dr. Wallich. It is perfectly hardy, and must 

 be considered a "reat addition to our shrubberies. 



J. L. 



* Linnaeus tells us that the derivation of Jasmine is to be found in ««», a 

 violet, and oa-iA, perfume. But it appears from the writings of the Arabian 

 Botanists Mesne, Ebn Alva, and Abulfadli, that its vernacular Arabian 

 dcnomiuation is lasmyn or Ismyn. 



