OLEACE^. 275 



r Flowers J^ inch, or more, solitary or few : petals 

 a <[ imbricate in bud A 275. jasminum. 



(Flowers J4 ii^ch, in panicles : petals not overlapping. . b 



TEndocarp bony : leaves 2 by 2 inches . . /. 278. olea. 

 b < Endocarp bony : leaves 6 by 2 inches. /. 277. linociera. 



(Endocarp thin, papery : leaves lanceolate . . . p. 279. 



LIGUSTRUM. 



JASMINUM. F.B.I. 92 I. 



Shrubs or woody climbers with opposite, simple or 

 pinnate leaves. Flowers with narrow tube and spreading 

 lobes, imbricate in bud. Fruit a two-lobed berry (unless 

 one carpel fails to develop), each lobe with one seed in 

 which the radicle points downwards. 



Species 140 to 160 nearly all in the tropics of Asia and 

 Africa ; and of these over 50 in India. 



Many have particularly fragrant flowers and are common as cultivated 

 plants, e.g., J. sambac Ait.^ on the plains and all over the tropics of both 

 hemispheres : J. officinale Z., the common white-flowered climber of English 

 and our hill gardens, but a native of Kashmir and Persia. 



Jasminum sambac Ait., var hcyneana; FB.L iii 591, 

 I I. Scandent with thin flexible stem. Leaves simple, 

 ovate with rounded or cuneate base, acute or obtuse, 

 nearly glabrous, /^ to l^ inches- Cymes three-flowered^ 

 Calyx-teeth i/i6to 1/8 inch. Corolla tube 1/2 inch. 

 Pulneys : near Kodaikanal in Bearshola. Bourne 2380.* 

 Clarke in F.B.I, suggests that this is a cultivated variety. 



Jasminum brcvilobum DC. ; F.B.I, iii 600, I 33. A 

 shrub with weak scandent softly hairy branches, shortly 

 stalked ovate leaves and terminal bunches of white 

 flowers. 



Branches terete pubescent. Leaf-stalks J4 inch : 

 blade iJ4 by I inch, ovate with very rounded or sub- 

 cordate base and small mucro, entire ; pubescent on 

 the underside like the stalk, less so or nearly glabrous on 

 the upper; sometimes with, sometimes without, a pair of 



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