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JASMlNUM caudatum. 

 Tail-leaved Jasmine. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA'. 

 Nat. ord. Jasminace/E. 

 JASMlNUM. Supra vol. I. fol. 89. 



J. caudatum ; scan dens, glabrum, foliis oppositis ternatis, foliolis ovato-lan- 

 ceolatis long^ acuminatis petiolulatis, paniculis cymseformibus terniina- 

 libus niultifloris, pedicellis filifonnibus, calyce subtruncato acute quin- 

 quedentato, corollse limbo 5-partito tubo breviore : laciniis oblongo-line- 

 aribus obtusiusculis. 



J. caudatum, Wallich cat. herb. ind. no. 2884. 



Frutex gracilis, glaherrimus, scandens. Folia nunc, sed rarissime, simplicia, 

 solito trifoliata, petiolo had 1 pollicem longo; petiolidis admodiim hremoribus ; 

 foliolis lateralibus tripollicaribus, intermedia longiore, in caudam sceph spiralem 

 acuminatis. Floras magni, candidi, inodori. 



A very handsome, but scentless, Jasmine, inhabiting the 

 warm valleys of the Sylhet niountains, whence it was intro- 

 duced into the Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



The only place in which the name exists, as far as I can 

 discover, is Dr. Wallich's Catalogue of the Herbarium of the 

 East India (Company, and Steudel's Nomenclator; a descrip- 

 tion of it I find nowhere. 



It is a graceful, healthy looking plant, with deep green, 

 handsome leaves, which are tapered into very long narrow 

 points, whence the name it bears has been given to it. 

 Although the flowers have none of the perfume of the Jasmine, 

 the masses of them, snow-white, and large, render it a hand- 

 some species well worth having. 



It requires the temperature of a cool stove, where it 

 grows and flowers in great luxuriance. It is well adapted 

 either for planting out in the l)order of the stove and training 



