2/6 OLEACE^. 



small lobes or leaflets. Flowers in terminal capitate 

 cymes. Corolla tube I inch, lobes J^ inch. Carpels in 

 fruit black, Vs inch, t, 187. 



In thickets and on the outskirts of sholas, common on both 

 plateaus. Nilgiris : everywhere about Ootacamund, flowering 

 after the monsoon rains, and down at least to Kotagiri and 

 Neduwattum. Pulneys : not on the highest levels but below at 

 Poombari, flowering June. Fyson 1862, 1888, 2939. Bourne 

 4784, 4651, 3051.^ 



Gen. Dist, South Indian hills. 



Jasminum auriculatum Vahl ; KB. I. iii 600, I 32. 



Similar to S. brevilobum DC, but leaves nearly glabrous, 

 flowers smaller, and in open compound cymes peduncled 

 in the upper axils. Corolla tube J^ inch : lobes J4 inch. 

 Fruit % inch. Wight Ic. tt. 1255, 1256. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund Wight. Pulneys : Bearshola near 

 Kodaikanal Bourne 1590. Courtallum Foulkes. 



Belongs properly to lower levels and is cultivated in many parts of 

 India. 



Jasminum bignoniaccum Wall, ex DC; F.B.I, included 

 in Jasminum humile Linn., iii 602 ; I 40 ;* Golden Trumpet. 

 An erect shrub with numerous green, very angular 

 branches : bud scales persistent as a cup at the base of 

 the year's shoot : youngest parts pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, I to 3 inches, pinnate with about seven leaf- 

 lets: main stalk grooved above, green: leaflets J^ by 

 54 inch, elliptic-acute at both ends, or diamond-shaped, 

 dull green on both sides. Flowers solitary or in dense 

 cymes at the ends of the twigs, full yellow : pedicel J^ 

 inch, pubescent, expanded below the calyx. Calyx 1/12 

 inch ; teeth five, triangular, very small. Corolla-tube J^ 

 to y^ inch, 1/16 inch wide at the base and J^ inch 

 just below the spreading ^ inch limb of five triangular 

 lobes. Anthers y% inch, sessile near the top of the tube, 

 opening inwards. Style bent, appressed to one side of 



