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Journ, Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1S9S) p. 164 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, 

 p. 544. — Vern. Jai. 



Jasminum grandiflomm, Linn. Sp. PL eel. 2 (1762) p. 9. A large 

 subscandent shrub, wild in the subtropical North-\vest Himalayas, often 

 cultivated in gardens throughout India. Very like J. officinale, but 

 differing in the equal size of the leaflets and larger flowers. Flowers 

 white, reddish underneath. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 603 ; Woodr. Gard. in 

 India, ed. 5, p. 375 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 542. Jasminum 

 aureum, Don, Prodr. El. Nep. p. 106 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 51. — 

 Vern. Chameli; Jati-Jai. 



This plant, known as the Spanish Jasmine, supplies most of the jasmine used in 

 perfumery. It is largely cultivated near Cannes in the south of France. See Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



Jasminum cahphyllum, AVall. Cat. (1828") 2889. A very beautiful 

 slirub of slightly scandent habit, a native of the Nilghiris. Leaves 

 opposite and alternate, 3-foliolate. Elowers pure white, 1 in. across; 

 corolla 10-lobed. This plant is grown with fine effect in the Public 

 Park, Baroda {Woodrow). El. B. I. v. 3, p. 602 ; Woodr. Gard. in Ind. 

 ed. 5, p. 375. 



2. NYCTANTHES, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Elowers 

 sessile, in pedunculate heads involucrate with ovate bracts; peduncles 

 axillary and terminal. Calyx narrowly campanulate or subeylindric, 

 truncate or indistinctly toothed, finally splitting or deciduous. Corolla 

 hypocrateriforra ; tube cylindrie, orange ; lobes 4-8, contorted in bud, 

 spreading. Anthers 2, subsessile near the top of the corolla-tube. 

 Capsule chartaeeous, much-compressed, parallel to the partition, separating 

 when ripe into two 1-seeded cells. Seed erect, flattened ; testa thin ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons flat ; radicle inferior. — Distrib. Species 2, of 

 which one is East Indian aud the other Sumatran. 



1. Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 6. A large 

 shrub or small tree rough all over with stiff whitish hairs ; young 

 branches sharply quadrangular, hairy. Leaves opposite, 2-4 by 1-2| in., 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, rough and scabrous above with short bulbous 

 hairs, densely pubescent beneath with appressed hairs, entire or with a few 

 large; distant teeth, base rounded or slightly cuneate ; main nerves few, 

 conspicuous beneath ; petioles | in. long, hairy. Elowers delightfully 

 fragrant, sessile in pedunculate bracteate fascicles of 3-5 ; peduncles 

 4-angled, slender, hairy, axillary and solitary and in terminal short tri- 

 chotomous cymes ; bracts broadly ovate or suborbicular, j-| in. long, 

 apiculate, hairy on both sides. Calyx l-j\ in. long, narrowly cam- 

 panulate, hairy outside, glabrous inside, truncate or obscurely toothed or 

 lobed, ciliate. Corolla glabrous, rather more than ^ in. long ; tube 

 X-j^ in. long, orauge-eolored, about equalling the limb ; lobes white, 

 unequally obeordate, cuneate. Capsule | in. long and broad, obeordate 

 or nearly orbicular, compressed, 2-celled, separating into 2 flat 1-seeded 

 carpels, reticulately veined, glabrous. El. B. I. v. 3, p. 603; Grab. Cat. 

 p. Ill ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 51 ; Bot. Mag. t. 4900 ; Bedd. Elor. Sylvat. 



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