314: LXXX. OLEACE.E. 



few, inconspicuous ; petioles very short. Flowers white, in compound, 

 many-flowered, pubescent, lax, corymbose cymes ; bracts ^-i in. long, 

 linear-lanceo'ate, acute ; pedicels ^-| in. long. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 pubescent; teeth minute (about 7vo'~A ^°- ^o"g)' oblong, obtuse. 

 Corolla glabrous ; tube | in. long ; lobes 5-7, elliptic-oblong, acute, 

 I in. long. Carpel solitai'y, -^ in. in diam., globose, black. Fl. B. I. 

 V, 3, p. 600 : Grab. Cat. p.' Ill ; Wight, Icon. t. 700 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. 115 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 217 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Kat. V. 12 (1898) p. 164. Jasmhmm q/^.ne *, Wight, Icon. t. 1255. 

 J. ovalifolium*, Wight, Icon. t. 1256. — Flowers: July-Oct. YERif. 

 Jai. 



Konkan: Stocks \ S. M. Counthy: Belgaum hills, norlh-east, Eitchie, 439!; 

 Badami, Bhival Sind : cultivated (fide C. B. Clarke).— Dis.is.m. India (W. Penhi- 

 sula) ; Ceylon. 



9. Jasminum flexile, VcM, Symb. Bot. v. 3 (1794) p. 1. An exten- 

 sive climber ; branches quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate, 

 usually drying yellow ; common petioles 2~^a ^^' ^^ng. Terminal leaflets 

 2-5 by 1-2 in., elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 

 glabrous, usually with undulate margins, base rounded or subacute ; 

 main nerves about 6 pairs ; petiolales |-1 in. long. Lateral leaflets 

 somewhat smaller than, but otherwise as the terminal ; petiolules g-5 in. 

 long. Flowers large, white, in copious lax paniculate axillary cymes ; 

 bracts g-^ in. long, linear, acute ; peduncles glabrous, 1 in. long ; 

 pedicels Yo~i ^^- ^'^^S^ glabrous. Calyx glabrous, y^-g in. long; teeth 

 minute, triangular. Corolla-tube 1 in. long ; lobes |-| in. long, elliptic, 

 obtuse or acute. Carpels stalked, broadly ovoid, ^ in. long, dark-purple. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 3, p. 601 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1253 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, 

 p. 115 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 217 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 164.— Flowers : Mar. 



Kanara : CTergreen forests of the southern Ghats of N. Xanara, common, Talbot ; 

 road from Kumpta to Sirsi, Woodrow I ; near Houavar, Kanitkar\ — Distrib. India 

 (W. Peninsula), apparently endemic. 



Jasminum Jiumile, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 7. An erect rigid rainous 

 shrub, not indigenous in the Bombay Presidency though found in 

 Southern India and Ceylon. Cultivated in gardens. The leaves are 

 alternate, trifoliolate or pinnate, the branches angular and tlie flowers 

 yellow. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 602 ; Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 374 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 543. — A^ekx. Hemajnqnl-a. 



Jasminum odoratissimum, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 7. A climbing 

 shrub, a native of Madeira, cultivated in gardeiis. Leaves alternate, 

 ternate and pinnate. Flowers yellow with 5 oblong obtuse corolla- 

 lobes. Grab. Cat. p. Ill ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 51. 



Jasminum officinale, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 7. The common white 

 Jasmine. Native of Kashmir, Afglianistan, and Persia, cultivated in 

 India, China, Europe, &c. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers white, 

 very fragrant ; corolhi-lobcs 4 or 5. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 603 ; AVoodr. in 



* These are dimorphic forms of the plant. 



