294 LXXIV. JASMINE.E 



Frait a berry. Panicles all terminal 3. Ligustei'M. 



Petals 4, quite distiuct or connected iu pairs by the stamens. Fruit a 

 drupe. 



Seed albuminous. Racemes axillary, simple 4. Notel.ea. 



Seed without albumen. Panicles axillary, rarely reduced to a single 



sessile cluster 5. Chionanthi^s 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. 



Corolla-tube c^'lindrical, the limb spreading, 5- to 8-lobec], the lobes im- 

 bricate, often contorted in the bud. IStamens included in the tube. Ovary 

 (at tlie time of flowering) entire or notched, 3-celled, with 1 ovule (or in 

 species not Australian sometimes 2 or even 3 ovules) in each cell, laterally 

 attached, but becoming erect as the ovary enlarges ; style inserted in the 

 notch, minutely 2-Iobed at the tip. Berry "2-lol)ed almost to the base, or en- 

 tire by the foilure of 1 carpel. Seed usually solitary in each lobe, erect, 

 without albumen ; cotyledons thick and fleshy, radicle scarcely promineut.— 

 Shrubs or climbers. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, either pinnate with 

 3 (or more in species not Australian) leaflets or apparently simple, being re- 

 duced to 1 leaflet, the petiole being then articulate. Flowers white or 

 yellow, in axillary or terminal trichotomous panicles or rarely almost solitary. 

 Bracts very small in all the Australian species. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over the warmer regions of the Old World, with oae or 

 two S. American species. Of the seven Australian species, two extend over the islands o 

 the S. Pacific and perhaps of the Eastern Archipelago, another is closely allied to, U no 

 identical with, a common S. Asiatic one; the others are eudemic, but not presenting any veiy 



marked distinctive chai'actcrs. 



Leaves all or almost all 3-foliolate. Calyx truncate or very shortly 



and obtusely toothed. 

 Leaflets mostly ovate, 2 to 3 in. Panicle usually broad . . . 1. /• dld^mum. 

 Leaflets ovate or oblong, i to 1 * iu. Panicles narrowed or re- 



dueed to simple racemes 2. /. racemosum. 



leaflets mostly linear or lanceolate. Panicles short' ! . . . 3. /. Uneare. 

 leaves simple (nuifoliolate), the petiole articulate below the middle. 



Leaves mostly ovate, penniveined. .-,. ^ 



Calyx-teeth much shorter than the tube or obsolete . , . , 4. /• simpl^^jo^^ 



Calyx-teeth subulate, much longer than the tube ..... 5- «^- ^^^^^^^^"*' 

 Leaves mostly oblong or lanceolate, 3- or 5-nerved. Calyx-teeth 



as long as or much longer than the tube 6. J. calcarem- 



Leaves mostly linear, penniveined. Calyx-teeth subulate, longer . 



than the tube , , , . .7. J, suavissimunt. 



1. J. didymum, Forst Prod. 3. A tall woody climber, usually „ 

 ■brous or the inflorescence minutely pubescent, but sometimes the f^^^^S^, ^ 

 young branches pubescent or villous. Leaves 3-foliolate, with rather i^ o 

 petioles and petioluks or very rarely a few of the lower leaves 1-^*^^^^'^.^^^ 

 leaflets usually orbicular or broadly ovate and obtuse, but sometimes o _ ^^ 

 and acuminate or ovate-lauceolate and ac --.-*> '- innor. uen 



veined and more or less distinctlv 3- or 5^nervea at tne uasc. . . , 



for the genus and often numerous, in loose trichotomous cymes or ^^^ ' 

 axillary or terminating short axillary branchlets, and often exceediUo 

 leaves. Pedicels short. Calvx under 1 line long, truncate or very sac? 



nerved nt the base. FJo^ers 



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