44 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
“ Ovarium bilobum,” is all that is said regarding that important organ, and that little is not in accordance 
with my experience, the ovary not being two lobed, when the flower drops, though the fruit, owing to a pecu- 
liarity in its mode of growth, afterwards becomes two lobed. The number and position of the ovules, as here 
stated, differ from the generally received character. In Endlicher’s Genera Plant, it is said, “ Ovula in loculis 
solitaria e basi dissepimenti adscendentia anatropa.” This is only partly right as I have found many with 2 
ovules in each cell, and one, perhaps accidentally, with three ; some with them positively pendulous, from near 
the apex of the cell, and several with them lateral, but attached above the middle, so as to be in truth descend- 
ing not ascending ovules, but few indeed, if any, really erect, that therefore I consider of rare occurrence, as 
compared with the other structure. 
Much importance was at one time attached to the position of the ovules in this genus, as compared 
with those of the Olives, on the supposition that they supplied adequate ground for separating two. groups of 
plants, which the eye told were not true members of the same family, but which, the reason failed in finding 
distinctive marks to separate. As an ordinal even as a generic character, it seems to me of no value ; and if 
employed as a specific one, except in a few extremely well marked cases, would probably often mislead. For 
these reasons, it must be discarded in practice, and other and more satisfactory ones sought for. The quinary 
formation and convolute estivatipn of flowers of the Jasmines, as compared with the quaternary structure and 
valvate estivation of the Olives supply very sufficient distinguishing marks. 
1251, JASMINUM ERFCTIFLORUM (Alph. D. C.) corymbose : calyx acute and acutely denticulate, lobes 
es seortire ovato-lanceolate, subcordate, long, of the coro ve a te on the apex—Flowers s yel- 
: peduncles nds 
on the ends of the branches, low, Sg —D. 
Sicaate ; reith from 5-7 erect pat pede flowers on the r. B tinea: (Alph. D x; 5) ey, sugetces 
apex : bracts linear, subulate, somewhat longer than hide, narrowing at the base, acute a apex 
the p Is : lobes o 6, linear gp flowers fe Neilgherries freq aah ub 
tube of the corolla 3 times longer than t opel ; 2-4 feet high, flowers solitary, or three or four together. 
lobes 6-7, oblong, acuminate, half the levigth of th Neilgherries, abundantly distributed all over them, 
tube.—An extensively scandent shrub, extremities of and always to be met with in flower, but in greatest 
e branches 4 sided, me 3-5 inches long, 15-20 perfection during t ins name J re- 
are : cymes shorter than — fap de leaves : : bracts am unacquainted with the origina 
es of th 5 
- mn 70 pt 
Neilgherries, Sandi to an sein of about his name, and bring here asa synonym Wallich’s Z 
6000 feet, flowering’ during t the hot se Bignoniaceum, which must be identical with Var. f. 
is when in full flower is a very bentone wo of Alph. D. C., though referred by his father to a 
Its large shining dark green leaves and numerous pure different Section, as there is no othe plant having 
white fragrant flowers, render it a conspicuous object the slightest resemblance to it on the Neilgherries 
among the dense jungle in which it usually grows D. C. refers here I Chrysanthemum Roxb. 
bring Don’s Z aureum her ere, though doubtfully, as 
1 ag bie thar Mae ah ie et on Pe are he says, the leaves are opposite, which however,I sus- 
us,) g 
m Wall. pect is an error, as I have a Nepaul specimen, er 
rous, not scandent, bes pr oe! hits mat rately according in all ane points with his charac 
ran Teaflets 3 3, 5,7, ate, or ovate goes but with alternate leaves, 
acu. : panicles tieatial, "Uppal e the leaves, 
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