Jasminum. diandria monogynia. 97 



on every part of the shrub, short-petioled, ovate-oblong, or 

 oblong, sometimes nearly cordate, finely-pointed, smooth, 

 shining, firm, very deep green, veinless. Flowers terminal, 

 generally three-fold, peduncled, large, white, with a faint 

 tinge of red, star-shaped, having a peculiar but very pleasant 

 fragrance. Peduncles clubbed, smooth. Calyx ; tube short ; 

 segments acute. Corol ; border generally eight or nine-parted ; 

 divisions lanceolate. Style short. Stigma lanceolate. Berries 

 oblong. 



Obs. I have for many years cultivated this species. It 

 grows easily in every soil and situation, is constantly covered 

 with leaves, and their bright, shining deep green colour, ren- 

 ders it always beautiful, and particularly well adapted for 

 screening windows, covering arbours, &c. 



12. J. lubifiornm. R. 



Scandent. Leaves sub-sessile, ovate-oblong, smooth. 

 Floxrers terminal, from three to five, short-peduncled. Caly- 

 cine segments from seven to eight, subulate, one-sixth the 

 length of the very long slender tube of the corol. Berries 

 ovate. 



A native of the Malay Archipelago, differs from all the 

 other Indian species hitherto examined by me in the great 

 length of its slender tube, which is three times longer than the 

 seven or eight, lanceolate segments of its border. 



13. J. simplicifolium. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. 1. 38. 

 Shrubby, spreading. Leaves oblong-, polished. Flowers 



from three to many terminal. Border of the corol of from 

 six to eight, linear, acute segments, equalling the tube in 

 length. 



Native place, the Friendly Islands, and the Eastern Ar- 

 chipelago, &c. Flowering time in the Botanic garden the hot 

 season. It does not ripen seeds in Bengal. 



Trunk scarcely any ; branches many, stout, I igneous, round, 

 smooth ; branchlets spreading in all directions. Leaves sira- 

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