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the apex or base. Fruit capsular, loculicidally 2-valved or indehiscent, 

 or a berry or drupe. Seeds solitary or 2 in each cell, erect or pendu- 

 lous ; testa thin or bony ; albumen fleshy or horny or ; embryo 

 straight ; radicle inferior or superior. — Distrib. Tropical and tempe- 

 rate regions of the world ; genera about 18, species about 280. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate : — 



Seeds exalbuminous ; usually climbing shrubs .. ..1. Jasminum. 



Seeds albuminous ; small trees.. .. .. ..2. Osmanthus. 



Corolla-lobes valvate : — 



Radicle superior ; trees or erect shrubs : — 



Corolla-tube very short, petals often in pairs . . . . 3. Linociera. 



Corolla tubular, sometimes absent . . . . . . 4. Olea. 



Radicle inferior ; climbing shrubs . . . . . . 5. Myxopyrum. 



Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis, Linn., is found in gardens in cultivation. 



1. Jasminum, Linn. 

 Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, 

 simple trifoliolate or imparipinnate, generally entire ; petiole usually 

 articulate. Floioers often handsome, white pink or yellow, often 

 sweet-scented, in 2- or 3-chotomous or simple cymes or sometimes 

 solitary, axillary or terminal, inflorescence centrifugal ; bracts linear 

 and small or ovate, sometimes petaloid, bracteoles usually linear. 

 Calyx-tube usually funnel-shaped or campanulate; lobes 4 to 9, linear, 

 long or short or 0. Corolla-tube narrow^, more or less elongate ; lobes 

 4 to 9, spreading, much imbricate. Stamens 2, usually included in the 

 •corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, attached to the filaments 

 at the back near the base, cells parallel, connective broad, usually pro- 

 duced in a mucronate point. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules usually 2 in each 

 cell, attached near the base ; style filiform, long or short, often both in 

 ■different flowers on the same plant ; stigma oblong or capitate, gene- 

 rally bifid. Berry didymous or simple by suppression of one carpel ; 

 •carpels globose, ellipsoid or elongate, pericarp usually of two layers, 

 the outer (exocarp) membranous, the inner (endocarp) fleshjr or fibrous. 

 Seeds usually 1 in each carpel, sometimes 2, testa very thin ; albumen 

 none ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle inferior, very small, included 

 within the cotyledons or slightly exsert. — Distbib. Tropical and warm 

 temperate regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia, one species in Europe, 

 many in cultivation : about 90 species in all. 



Leaves simple : — 

 Leaves penninerved, basal pair of nerves not opposite nor pro- 

 duced to form an intramarginal nerve : — 

 Inflorescence terminal : — 

 Erect or straggling shrub .. .. ..1. J. Sambac. 



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