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late in the middle, the bases of each pair connected (as are the branch- 

 lets) on either side by a raised nodal line. Flowers white, in few- (4-12-) 

 flowered, pubescent, sub-capitate cymes, sub-sessile in the axils of the 

 two uppermost bract-like leaves ; bracteoles linear-subulate, -15 in. long ; 

 pedicels -1 in. long. Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5 to 7, linear- 

 subulate, -1 to -15 in. long. Corolla-tube slender, cylindric, -6 to -8 in. 

 long; lobes 6 to 9, ovate-oblong, spreading, apiculate, -2 to -3 in. long. 

 Stamens included in the corolla-tube ; filaments short, slender ; anthers 

 oblong, mucronate, -1 to -15 in. long, connective broad. Ovary cylin- 

 dric, glabrous; style slender, exsert ; stigmas 2, clavate. Fruit a didy- 

 mous berry; carpels ovoid, -5 in. long, -2 in. broad; exocarp membranous 

 shining, endocarp fibrous. Seed conform to carpel, testa very thin, 

 membranous. A.DC. Prod. VIII. 305 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 595. /. bracteatum, Wall. Cat. 2867. J. nummularoides, Blume 

 Mus. Lugd. Bat. I. 275 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 537. 



Penang: Wallich 2866, 2867 ; Ctirtis 1920 ; Bidley 9361. Peeak : 

 Wray 4180 ; King's Collector 860, 4920, 10699 ; Deschamps ; ScortecUni 

 59, 144, 238. Selangob : Bidley 7550, 8567. Pahang : Bidley 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 2, III. 319. — Distrib. Java. 



Var. glabra, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 595. Leaves 

 larger, elliptic, rhomboid or rounded at the base, more glabrous, less 

 bifarious ; calyx-teeth rather longer. /. Lessertianum, A.DC. Prod. 

 VIII. 304. 



JuNKSEYLON (Tongka) : Curtis 2911. Penang: Maingay (K.D.) 999 ; 

 Deschamps. Peeak: Wray 4:180; Scortechini ; Kimstler 122. Malacca: 

 Ch'iffith (K.D.) 3708 ; Goodenough 1995. Johoee : Bidley 4217. Singa- 

 pore : Lobb ; Bidley 10760. — Distrib. Sumatra. 



8. Jasminum ADENOPHYLLUM, Wall. Cat. 2876 (1829). A very slender 

 wiry climber ; branchlets extensively twining, glabrous. Leaves mem- 

 branous; ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, variable, acuminate and 

 mucronate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous above except on the 

 midrib, glabrous beneath except the tuft of tawny baits in the axils of 

 the main-nerves; margins somewhat undulate; 1'5 to 5 in. long, "75 to 

 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves very slender, obscure, about 

 6 pairs, curving upwards to meet in a faint intramarginal looped nerve ; 

 petiole slender, twisted, articulate in the middle, -2 to -3 in. long, hispid. 

 Floicers white, sohtary, or 2 to 3 together in a slender, sometimes leafy, 

 umbel from the axils of the leaves ; peduncle "75 to 1-25 in. long, 

 flattened above and with a pair of opposite bracts near the middle ; 

 bracts of umbel 2, linear-subulate, -3 in. long ; pedicels very slender, 

 •75 to 1 in. long, clavately enlarged in fruit. Calyx-tube campanulate, 

 glabrous, ribbed, -1 in. long ; lobes linear-subulate, keeled on the back, 



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