Jasminmn. diandria monogynia. 91 



with fine down in both sides ; length from one to five inches. 

 Flowers terminal, from simply tern to a large compound 

 corymb, pretty large, pure white, fragrant. Pedicels clavate, 

 villous. Bractes short, subulate, villous. Calyx villous, 

 five or six-cleft; divisions short, and subulate. Corol ; tube 

 swelling towards the mouth, much more than the calyx. 

 Border of from six to twelve, linear, spreading divisions with 

 margins re volute. Filaments short. Anthers lodged just 

 within the mouth of the tube of the corol. Germ turbinate. 

 Style so long as to elevate the two-lobed stigma so as to make 

 it level with the anthers. 



Obs. The species differs from my arborescens in being 

 scandent, and in the shape of the leaves, as well as* in the 

 pubescence ; here they are lanceolate, and very villous; there 

 cordate and smooth. 



4. J. pubescens. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 37. 



Leaves cordate, downy. Umbels terminal, sessile, many- 

 flowered. 



Katu-Tsjiregam-Mulla. Rheed. Mai. 6. p. 95. 1. 54. 



Nyctanthes multifora. Burm. Flor. Ind. p. 5. t. S.J'. 1. 



Nyctanthes pubescens. Retz. Obs. 5. 9. 



Sans. Maghyun, Koondum. See Asiat. Res. 4. 244. 



Benu. Koonda. 



A very ramous shrub, brought originally from China into 

 the Company's Botanic garden. It is also indigenous in 

 Bengal. Is in flower during the rains^ chiefly. 



Stem scarcely any ; branches numerous, covered with ash- 

 coloured bark ; the young parts very downy. Leaves oppo- 

 site, short-petioled, cordate, entire, downy, particularly while 

 young; the terminal ones crowded (involucre-like) round 

 the umbels. Umbels terminal, sessile, tending to be tricho- 

 tomous, containing from ten to thirty, sessile flowers ; downy 

 in all parts. Flowers large, pure white, fragrant. Bractes 

 few, lanceolate. Calyx six-cleft ; border of the corol from 

 six to nine-parted ; divisions lanceolate. Stamens within the 



