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Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Climbing shrubs : — 



Calyx-lobes "2 in. long or longer ; leaves rather large : — 

 Leaves chartaeeous : — 



Leaves and branchlets fulvous-pilose, main-nerves 



10 to 12 pairs . . . . . . . . '2. J. Griffithii. 



Leaves and branchlets glabrous, main-nerves 6 to 



8 pairs . . . . . . . . 3. J". Maiiigayi. 



Leaves membranous : — 



Calyx-lobes spreading, -25 in. long or longer ; fruit- 

 ing pedicels thickened 



Calyx-lobes erect, -5 in. long ; pedicels very short 

 Calyx-lobes under -2 in. long, pubescent ; leaves 

 small : — 



Corolla-tube short, -25 in. long 

 Corolla-tube '6 to -8 in. long. . 

 Inflorescence axillary 

 Leaves penninerved, basal pair of nerves opposite, produced to 

 form an intramarginal nerve : — 

 Basal pair of nerves prominent, branchlets round : — 

 Flowers in few-flowered long-peduncled cymes ; pedicels 

 1 to 1-5 in. long .. .. .. ..9. J . longipetaluvi. 



Flowers in many-flowered short-peduncled cymes ; pedi- 

 cels under -5 in. long . . .. .. ..10. 



Basal pair of nerves not prominent, branchlets 4-angular . . 11. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate . . . . . . . . 12. 



J. Wrayi. 

 J. Curtisii. 



J. decussatum. 



J. bifarvum. 



J. adenophyllinn. 



J. smilacifolium. 



J. inaigne. 



J. Scortechinii. 



1. Jasminum Sambac, Ait. Hort. Kew. I. 8 (1789). A sub-erect, 

 straggling, scarcely climbing shrub ; branches terete, smooth ; branch- 

 lets slender, pubescent. Leaves membranous ; variable, usually ovate^ 

 often broadly so, acute or obtuse at apex, cuneate or rounded or 

 cordate at base ; glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, often 

 with tufts of hair in the axils of the main-nerves ; margins recurved ; 

 1-5 to 4-5 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed 

 above, raised beneath ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, arching upwards to and 

 along the margin, raised beneath ; reticulations distinct on both sides ; 

 petiole "1 to -25 in. long, pubescent, articulate in the middle. Floioers 

 white, very fragrant, solitary or in 2-3-flowered terminal pubescent 

 cymes ; bracteoles linear-subulate ; pedicels '25 in. long, pubescent. 

 Calyx-inhe, campanulate, -1 in. long; teeth 5 to 9, linear-subulate, •! to 

 •25 in. long. CoroZZa- tube slender, funnel-shaped, -5 in. long; lobes 8 to 9, 

 spreading, as long as tube, oblong acute or obtuse. Stamens included 

 in the tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong. Ovary rounded ; style 

 slender; stigmas 2, clavate. Berry didymous or with 1 carpel only by 

 suppression ; carpels black, -25 in. in diam., sub-globose, surrounded by 

 the sub-erect persistent calyx-teeth. Bot. Eeg. t. 1 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 1785 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2868 ; A.DC. Prod. VIII. 301 ; Wight Ic. t. 704 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brandis For. Fl. 311 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

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