Jasminum. diandria monogynia. 99 



16. J. paniculatum. R. 



Shrubby, erect, every part polished. Leaves tenia te; 

 leaflets oval, obtusely acuminate. Panicles terminal. 



Sam-yeip-son-hing of the Chinese. 



From Canton in China this fine erect, shrubby, highly po- 

 lished species was received into the Botanic garden, where 

 it blossoms during the rains. The leaflets are from oval to 

 oblong, with an obtuse point, polished, of a hard texture. 

 The flowers are small and white, but numerous, on terminal 

 pretty large open, brachiate panicles. 



17. J. chrysanthemum. R, 



Shrubby, erect. Leaves alternate, pinnate ; leaflets three, 

 five, or seven, lanceolate. Corymbs sub-terminal. Calycine 

 segments attenuate. 



Hemapushpica, or yellow yuthica, Asiat. Res. iv. 246. 



Sans. Hema-psoohptka. 



A native of the mountainous countries north of Hindoostan. 

 Colonel Hardwieke found it on his journey to Sirinagur, 

 (see Asiat. Res. vi. 341). Jasminum, No. :J.) and Dr. Buchanan 

 in Nepal. In the Botanic garden it grows freely from 

 cuttings, and becomes a stout, erect ramous shrub, even a 

 small tree, without the smallest tendency to lean, or twine. 

 Flowers more or less the whole year; but, like the other 

 species, the proper season is April and May, at which time it 

 is the most desirable Jasmine I have yet seen. 



Stem stout and woody, in plants seven or eight years old 

 as thick as a man's leg. Bark smooth, ash-coloured. Young 

 shoots erect, flexuose, angular, smooth ; height of the shrub 

 from eight to twelve feet. Leaves alternate, unequally pin- 

 nate ; at the base of tV young shoots ternate or even some- 

 times solitary. Leaflets two, or more generally three pair, 

 and a terminal one ; opposite, lanceolate, smooth, dark green, 

 but not glossy ; from one and a half to three inches long. 

 Corymbs generally terminal, from ten to twenty-flowered, as 

 in the figure of Jasminnm odoratmimum, in Curtis's Bot. 



