[Plate 32.] 
THE ASOCA. 
(JONESIA ASOCA.) 
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Specific Character. 
277# ASOCA . — A tree. Leaves in 3—5 pairs, with smooth 
lanceolate wavy acuminate leaflets rather acute at the base. 
Flowers in terminal fasciculate corymbs, hexandrous. | 
Jonesia Asoca, Roxburgh in Asiatic Researches, vol. 4, p. 355 
This beautiful tree, with glowing fragrant flowers, blossomed, in June 1 t, at Chatsworth 
aquatic house, whence our specimen was obtained. 
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Indies, where it is also much cultivated in gardens. Roxburgh says it is 
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I in gardens about Calcutta, where it grows to be a very handsome, middling-sized, 
; flowering time, the beginning of the hot season; seeds ripen during the rains. The 
seeds were, I am informed, originally brought from the interior parts of the country, 
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W. Jones himself, after whom the genus was nam 
" The number of stamens 
nine, but the regular number seems 
interstices of the corol (caly 
before the centre of each division. Most of the flowers, indeed, have one abortive stamen, an 
only mark its place, but many are perfect, and Van Rheede speaks of eight as the constant n 
in fact, no part of the plant is constant. Flowers fascicled, fragrant just after sunset and 
whfin t.W *m frnsh with evenim? and morning dew; beautifully diversified with 
sunrise 
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JONESIA ASOCA:— Arborea ; foliis 3— .Vjugis foliolii 
laevibua lanceolatis undulatis acuminatis basi acutis, 
corymbis terminalibus fasciculatis, floribus hexaudris. 
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