CHAP. VIII.] JASMINES. 135 



in the seeds. The leaves (c) are impari-pinnate, 

 with the single terminating leaflet larger than 

 the others; and the petioles are articulated. 

 The common yellow Jasmine (J. fruticans) has 

 flowers in terminal clusters of three each, and its 

 leaves are either ternate, that is, with three 

 leaflets, or simple. The branches are angular, 

 and the leaves quite smooth. The Nepaul 

 yellow Jasmine, {J. i^evolutum) has pinnate 

 leaves of five or seven leaflets, which are smooth 

 and shining. The flowers are large and pro- 

 duced in compound corymbs. They are a bright 

 yellow, and very fragrant. The segments of 

 the corolla are obtuse, and the stigma club- 

 shaped. There are above seventy species of 

 Jasmine, more than twenty of which have been 

 introduced into Britain ; but they may be all 

 easily recognised by their flowers, which bear a 

 strong family likeness to each other, and by 

 the petioles of their leaves, which are always 

 articulated or jointed, that is, they will break 

 off the stem without tearing the bark. In 

 other respects the leaves vary exceedingly in 

 this genus, some being simple and others com- 

 pound; and some being opposite, as in the 

 common Jasmine, and others alternate, as in 

 J. revolutum. 



