1G4 DIANDEIA MONOGYNIA. JaS). 



considerable'exlent, sending forth fascicled, sometimes single, oppo- 

 site or alternate branches from each joint, which scarcely rise four 

 inches above the surface on which the plant grows. — Stems thread-like, 

 ]jubescent, with four or fi\e farrows ; hranches once or twice sub- 

 divided into small opposite branchlets. — Leares generally quatern, 

 luiely tern, four or five lines in length, obtuse, cuneateatthe base, 

 shining and somewhat concave above, with copious short hairs below, 

 .lightly ciliated, without vein« or ribs, and losing even the three pale- 

 coloured nerves when dry; the lowest verticils many times, the others 

 twoorlhvee times shorter than the interstices between the joints. — 

 Leaven of the young shoots linear-oblong, measuring sometimes an 

 inch ia length. — Pefiols very short, villous, erect, with a gland-like 

 body in then- axils, villous. — Spike terminal, very slender, from an 

 inch to an inch and a half long, round, villous, excavated on its sur- 

 face with innumerable small pores in which the flowers are lodged, 

 on a peduncle about half its length. 



O/'i,. All the parts of this elegant little species have a faint pun- 

 gent taste. I have not been able hitherto to examine its organs of 

 tructilication in a satisfactory manner. 



Addition to Jasminum heterophyllifm, p. 99- — By. N". W. 

 Since the above page was printed I have through the kindness of 

 the Honourable IVIr. Gardner been favored with flowering speci- 

 mens of that interesting species which have enabled me to add the 

 following description. 



J. heterophil] um. R. 



Arboreous. Leaves alternate, petioled, simple or ternate, from ob- 

 long to broad ovate, acuminate, waved, lucid, firm. — Panicles ter- 

 minal, spreading, trichotomous, fastigitate.— Ca/j/x urceolate with 

 subulate teeth — Segments of the corol oblong, equalling the tube. 



Nepak names, Gooje and Javana. 



It grows to be a midling-sized tree with long branches which have 



ceiidency to become rambling. Leaves varying so much in size, as 

 \^eli as tigure, as to appear to belong to different species, while in 



