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Jasminum Officinale. Linn, (white jasmine.) A smooth 

 climbing shrub with leaves opposite, pinnate and three to 

 seven leaflets, lanceolate. Flowers white and very fragrant. 

 Summer months. 



Jasminum Sambac. Ait. (Arabian Jasmine.) A low bushy 

 shrub with rusty stems, heart shaped, entire and downy leaves. 

 Flowers white, one inch in diameter. This and the previous 

 one are called by Lefroy " all naturalized," but I have never 

 yet seen them outside of cultivation. Summer months. 



Natural Order, Apocynaceae. 



Nerium Oleander. Linn. (Oleander.) An evergreen shrub 

 bushy, branching densely from base, six to twenty feet high, 

 attaining in places along South shore the dimensions of a tree, 

 and free from undergrowth. Leaves lance-shaped, six inches 

 long, one and a quarter to one and a half inch wide, glossy 

 and rather fleshy. Flowers are followed by seed-pods six to 

 ten inches long, not abundant. The blossoms range in colour 

 from delicate white to various shades of deep red scarlet, with 

 here and there a double-flowing plant to be seen, and on the 

 cross-roads from Walsingham to the North shore a fine hedge 

 of double-flowering oleanders exists. When in full bloom the 

 scent is overpowering, and is said to exercise on certain con- 

 stitutions poisonous effects. Introduced, it is said, as a rare 

 exotic, about 1790, it has now spread all over the islands, and 

 is a nuisance to farming interests. The more it is cut down, 

 unless the roots are extracted, the thicker it grows again. Its 

 seeds, like thistledown, are carried everywhere by the wind, 

 when the seed-pod opens. It makes excellent hedges or wind- 

 breaks, but along the shores is badly aff'ected by the sea spray. 

 The flowers are in perfection from May to the end of July, 

 though a stray blossom may not unfrequently be found all 

 through the year. 



Plumieria Rubra. Linn. (Frangipani; sometimes called red 

 jasmine.) A small tree or shrub, to be found common in gar- 

 dens, its thick cylindrical, blunt branches terminating in 

 clusters of large, alternate, oblong leaves, and large red flowers. 

 It is one of the few deciduous or leaf-shedcling shrubs in winter 

 here, flowering before the new leaf puts forth in May. It is 



