Jismixum.] OLE ACE JE. 21 



sometimes polygamous or dioecious, ai ranged in terminal 01 axillary 

 tricbutoirjous cymes or panicles, rarely fasoicled or racemose. Calyx 

 small, truncate or 4-or more-lobed. Corolla monopetalous, rarely 

 4-9-petalrus or ; tube Imp or short ; lobes imbricate or valvate 

 in bud. Stamens 2 (in the Indian species), inserted on the corolla, 

 or (in the polypetalous or apetakus genera) hypogynous, filaments 

 usually short, anthers oblong. Ovary free, 2-celled, stigma simple 

 or 2-loVed ; ovules usually two in each cell, attached to tie inrer 

 angle near the apex or base. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, or a beiry 

 or drupe. /Seeds solitary or two in each cell, erect or pendulous, 

 albumen fleshy horny or 0, embryo straight, radicle inferior or 

 superior. — Species about 280, in tropical and temperate regions. 



Corclla-lobes imbricate in lud, usually mere 

 than four. 



Fruit a berry, 2-lobed or ("by abortion) 

 simple.— Usually scandent shrubs with 

 simile or compound leaves . .1. Jasminum. 



Fruit a flattened capsule. — A large shrub 

 or small tree with simple leaves . . 2. Nyctanthes. 



Fruit an cb<void capsule.— A tree with 



compound leaves . . . .3. Schrebera. 



Corclla-lobes valvate in bud, not more than 

 four, leaves simple. 



Petals nearly free or connate in pairs . 4. Linociera. 



Petals C( nnate in a she rt tul e or some- 

 times absent . . , . .5. Olea. 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 591. 



Shrubs, erect or scandent. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, sim 

 3-foliolate or impaiipinnate. Floicers usually fragrant, arranged 

 in terminal cr axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Calyx 4-9-tid. or 

 -partite. Corolla salvei -shaped, white pink or yellow, tube narrow ; 

 lobes 4-10 or more, spreading, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, not 

 exserted, filaments very short, anthers attaoled near their bases on 

 the back, connective usually mucronate. Ovary 2-celled; ttyfr 

 cylindric, short ; stigma simple or 2-lobed ; ovuh-s 2 in each cell, 

 attached near the base. Berry didymous, or by suppression simple ; 

 carpels slobose ellipsoid or elongate. Seeds usually solitary in each 



