94 diandria monocynia. Jasminum. 



S. J. bracteatum, R. 



Twining. Leaves opposite, ovate-oblong, acute, villous. 

 Flowers in terminal bracted fascicles of three, five, or eleven 

 flown-. Calycine segments from rive to seven, subulate; 

 those of the corol from five to eight, oblong, with rounded 

 acuminate apices. Style longer than the tube. Stiff ma en- 

 tire. 



A native of the island of Sumatra. From Bencoolen Dr. C. 

 Campbell sent plants to the Botanic garden, under the name 

 Coast Jasmine. In Bengal they blossom during the cool| and 

 the beginning of the hot season ; the seed ripens in April. 



Stem scarcely any ; branches numerous, ligneous, climbing 

 and twining, extending op and over trees of considerable 

 size-, tender parts round, and clothed with much, very soft, 

 short, pale green down. Leaves simple, opposite, short-petiQl- 



ed. OVate-Oblong, aCUte, entire, downy, two or three inches 



long, and one or two broad. Flowers numerous, pretty large, 

 white, fragrant, in terminal fascicles of generally three, or five, 

 sub-sessile <>n< a, or grou ing <»n short, axillary branchlets j em- 

 braced l>v one. or two pair of large bractes, and by a greater 

 number, when the fascicle terminates a primary branchlet ; 

 the addition in this, as in most of the other Indian species, 

 proceed in opposite pairs of three- flowered peduncles. Jirac- 



tes opposite, always two, generally unequal pairs, of an ovate- 

 cordate shape, under each fescicle, and some small subulate 

 ones w ithin them, all villous, like every other tender part of 

 the plant. Calyx downy. Tube short. Segments five, six, or 

 seven, subulate. Corol smooth. Tube twice the length of die 

 calyx. Bub-cylindric. Border of from five to eight, oblong 

 segments, rounded at the apex, with a small point in the mid- 

 dle. Germ two-celled, one ovulum in each. Style longer than 

 the tube of the corol. Stigma entire, linear, with a groove on 

 each side. Berries one or two, united from the middle down- 

 wards, size of a large pea, oval, smooth, succulent, and of a 

 shining black colour when ripe, one-celled. Seed single, 

 oval. Integuments two; exterior composed of woolly fibres; 



