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reality they are the produce of one and the same tree, only taken from 

 differently aged branches ; oblong and tapering, some times ovate- 

 oblong, or even very broad-ovate almost cordate, generally alter- 

 nate, in younger shoots opposite, from three to six inches long, two 

 to three or even four inches broad, terminating into a long acumen, 

 rounded, sometimes unequal at the base, perfectly smooth, shining 

 above, pal^ below, w ith a very elevated rib, and long, sub-opposite, 

 oblique, arched nerves which unite into sub-marginal reticulated 

 veins. The leaves are promiscuously single and ternate, or even 

 biuate on one and the same branch ; but in general they have a ten- 

 dency to become ternate on younger branches Petiols slender, groo- 

 ved, as well as the peduncles covered with short hairs, which occa- 

 sionally continue along the principal vessels on the under side of the 

 leaves ; from one to two inches long ; partial ones, short; they are all 

 articulated at both extremities. — Panicles more or less elevated 

 above the leaves, large, spreading, many times branched, the first 

 divisions being long, the subsequent ones gradually shorter. — Pe- 

 duncles slender, lax, together with the calyx hairy, with subulate de- 

 ciduous biactes under each ramification. — Flozcers very numerous 

 and dense, ternate, yellow, delightfully fragrant, elevated on longish 

 pedicels to nearly the same level ; the intermediate ones sessile.— 

 Tube of the corol about half an inch long, cylindric, striated. — Sta- 

 mens slightly elevated above the mouth. 



(Jbs. This ornamental Jessamine is probably the largest of the 

 genus, growhig as I am informed, to a considerable tiee, — N. W, 



