1. Symplocos.] 70. STYRACEJ8. [1. Jasminum. 



L. pale beneath, narrowed at the base, often sinuately or sharply 

 serrate above the middle, glabrous, sec. n. fine distinct 7-9 prs. oblique. 

 Spikes, small ovate bract, and bradeoles rusty pubescent. 



Fam. 71. OLE ACE J2, 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, with opposite simple 

 or pinnate exstipulate leaves. Fls. regular' usually 2-sexual, 

 usually in 3 chotomous cymes or panicles. Calyx small 

 truncate or 4-lobed or sometimes 5-9-lobed. Corolla 4-9- 

 petalous rarely 0. St. 2 hypogynous or on the corolla-tube. 

 Ovary 2-celled, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed. Ovules 1-2 

 in each cell, axile. Fr. ciehiscent or indehiscent. Seeds I or 

 2 in each cell, erect or pendulous ; albumen present or not, 

 embryo straight. 



I. Corolla |* diam. or mora, lobes imbricate. Fr. capsular 



or a berry. 

 Shrubs sometimes scandent. »Corbllar4ube white. Fruit 



baccate 1. Jaeminum- 



Small tree. Corolla-tube yellow. Fr. a coriaceous 



capsule 2. Nydanthes. 



Tree. L- pinnate. Fls. brownish. Fr. a pyriform woody 



capsule 3. Schrebera. 



II. Corolla under \" diam., lobes valvafa. ur. a drupe. 

 Petals in pairs, distinct or nearly so. Panicles 



axillary . . • • • • • • • 4. Linociera. 



Corolla tubular. Panicles terminal . . . . 5. Ligudrtm. 



1. JaSDliuilIU, L. Jasmine. 



Shrubs often scandent orwith sarmentose branches, with 

 simple leaves (in the Chota Nagpur spp.) articulate petioles 

 and white or pinkish flowers in 2-3-chotomous cymes. Calyx 

 with or 4-9 linear teeth. Corolla salver-shaped with 

 narrow tube and 4-10 spreading petals. Ovules 2 in each 

 cell near the base. Berry simple or didymous, seed one in 

 each carpel, erect, exalbuminous. 

 I. Cymes lax. 



(a) Cymes about 1-7-fld. Calyx lobea J.'' Eipe 



carpels globoae 1. 8ambac. 



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