Jasminum. uiandria monoctnta. 93 



Jasmine. In Bengal ihey blossom during the cool, ;u;d die begin- 

 ning of the hot season ; the seed ripen in Apnl. 



5'to« scarcely any; ir«/(c//es numerous, ligneous, climbing and twin- 

 in"", extending up and over trees ot" considerable size; tender parts 

 round, and clothed ^vith much, very soft, short, pale green down. — 

 Leaves simple, opposite, shoi t-petioled, ovate-oblong, acute, entire, 

 downy, two or three inches long, and one or two broad. — F/ozcers 

 numerous, pretty large, ^hite, fragrant, in terminal fascicles of ge- 

 nerally three, or five, subsessile ones, or growing on short, axillary 

 branchlets; embraced by one, or two pair of large bractes, and by a 

 greater number, ^vhen the fascicle terminates a primary branchlet ; 

 the additions in this, as in most of the other Indian species, proceed 

 in opposite pairs of three-flowered peduncles. — Bractes opposite, 

 always two, generally unequal pairs, of an ovate -cordate shape, 

 under each fascicle, and some small subulate ones within them, 

 all villous, like every other tender part of the plant Calyx dow- 

 ny. Tube short. Segrnc^rtsfive, six, or se\en, subulate. — Coro/smootb. 

 Tube twice the length of the calyx, sub-cylindric. Border of from 

 live to eight, oblong segments, rounded at the apex, with a small 

 j'ointin the middle. — Genu two-celled, one ovula in each. Sti/Ie 

 longer than the tube of the corol. Stigma entire, linear, wilh 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 lipe; one-celled. — Seed single, oval. Integuments 

 two; exterior composed of woolly fibres; inner thinner and more 

 tender, both dark, brownish black.— Pm>;;e7-mnone. — Embriio erect. 

 Cotijlcdonscowionxi to the seed, green. Flumula two-lobed. Radicle 

 patelliform, inferior. 



9. J. latifolium. li. 



Shrubby^ twining. Leaves opposite, petioled, cordate. Corymbs 

 terminal; cnlijcine segments from five to seven, subulate ; those of 

 the corol from ten to twelve, linear, and cuspidate. Berries kidney- 

 shaped. 



