Jaminum.'] - Lxxiv. jasmine.e. 



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fence, the flowers being very tiearly or even quite sessile ; it is spread over the Archipelago, 

 ind was gathered by A. Cunniaghkra in Timor, but I have seen no Australian specimen. 



6. J. calcareum, F. Mudl. Fragm. i. 212. SUms woody, short and 

 erect or elongated and twining, quite glabrous as well as the foliage in all 

 tlie specimens seen. Leaves opposite, simple, oblong-lanceolate or rarely 

 ovate-lanceolate, 'obtuse acute or acuminate, thick, 3-uerved or 5-nervecl 

 when broad, narrowed Into a petiole articulate near the base, \\ to ijxn. 

 long. Flowers in terminal, rather dense, trichotomous cymes. Calyx-lobes 

 linear, usually thick, in some specimens not longer than the tube, ni others 

 twice or even three times as long. Corolla-tube 5 to 7 lines long ; lobes 7 

 to 10, rather broad. Berry rather large, globular, rareiy didymous. 



W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, Qlh Coll. ii. 136 ; 

 Greenough flats. Champion Bay, and Murchison river, Oldfield. 



A specimen in Herb. F. Mueller from Central Australia (collector not meutioned) is 

 referred to this species by F. Mueller ; but it is too imperfect to determine accurately. 



7. J. suavissimum- Lindl. in Mitch. Trap. Anstr. 355. Stems from 

 a woody branching base erect, about 1 ft. high, but occasionally elongated 

 and twining, glabrous as well as the foliage in all our specimens. Leaves ou 

 very short petioles, opposite or rarely alternate, simple, linear or Unear-lan- 

 wolate, acute, 1 to 2 in. long. Flowers in terminal cymes ot ^ to 5 or so- 

 litaiy in the upper axils and then on long peduncles. Calyx-teeth subulate; 

 longer than the tube. Corolla-tube 3 to 4 lines long ; lobes 5 o /, very 

 acute, and usually as long as the tube. Fruit small, sometimes didymous. 

 ,-F. Muell. Frag^n. i. 183 ; J. dianmifoUum, Vis. PI. Hort. Patav. IboS. 7- 



Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller; Maranoa river, Mitchell ; Brisbane river, 

 ''ioKionmy,Bidwm,C.Siiiart;^txrmc\i,Beckler. , ^ „ ' , norllnir Downs 



, N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler ; Ne^v England, C. Stuart ; Darling Dow ns. 

 Laic, 



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2. OLEA, Linn. 



. Calyx short, 4-toothed. Corolla with a short tube and 4 |ol^^^' ^^■s|;|;^y 

 imbricate or valvate in the bud, rarely (in a species not Australian) ^""J "=• 

 Ovules 2 in each cell of the ov^rv, pendulous. Style short. Fruit a drupe 

 the endocarp usually hard. Seed solitary or rarely 2 ; albumen copiou^ 

 fleshy.-Trees or rarely shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers small, m 

 axillary panicles or clusters, rarely also terminal. 



. The genus is widely dispersed over the warmer regions of the Old ^^°^ld, witt one ^or^^t 

 American species. The only Australian species, with the inflorescence less exclusively 

 ^ than in most others, extends only to iS'ew Caledonia. 



, 1. O. panic^ilata, R. Br. Prod. 523. A tree of moderate size c^iite 

 glabrous. Leaves on rather long petioles, ovate-lanceolate or eUipti^j'> ^^^ 

 annate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in. long penniveined underneath bu not c^^PJ 

 «"ously reticulate. Flowers smd^ all pedicellate m loose trichotomous 

 P'^mcles, terminal or more frequently in the upper axils, and ^^'^^^^^ 

 ^'^mg the leaves. Calyx scarcely 1 line diameter Corolla-tube short and 

 ^^ad, the lobes rather above 1 line diameter. Anthers as long '-^^tj^ thick 

 '^ very short broad filaments. Style very short ; stigma either broad, tluclv, 



