22 0LEAQE2E. [Jasminum. 



carpel, erect, exalbuininous, radicle inferior. — Species about 90, 

 inhabiting Asia, Africa and Australia, and one is iniigenous in S. 

 Europe. 



Leaves simple 



Leaves ovate, calyx densely pubescent. 



Flowers sessile, or snbsessile, in compact 

 cymes.— A scandent shrub . . . 1. J. pabescens. 



Flowers pedicelled, in lax cymes. — A large 

 erect or scandent shrub . . . 2. J. arborescens. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate or ellipt'.c, calyx 

 glabrous or nearly so.— An erect shrub . 3. J.brevipetiolatum. 



Leaves imparipinnate. — A climbing shrub . 4. J. dispevmum. 



1. J. pubescens, Willd. Sp. PI. i, 37; Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey Sr Wall 

 4,99; Don Prod. 105 ; F.B.I. Hi, 592; Watt E. D. ; Kanjildl For. Fl. 

 225; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 468; Prain Beng. PI. 659; Cooke Fl. 

 Bomb, ii, 112. J. hirsutum, Willd. ; Brandis For. ,Fl. 312.— Vern. 

 ■Chameli, kunda. 



A scandent shrub. Branchlets and young parts densely fulvous-tomentose. 

 Leaves opposite, simple, ovate, acute or mucronate, blade ls-2^ in. 

 long by 1-2 in. broad, base rounded or cordate, scft'y pubescent on 

 both surfaces especially on the veins beneath, finally subglabrous 

 above; main lateral nerves 4-6 pairs; petiole £-f in., densely tomen- 

 tose. Flowers sessile or nearly so, white, fragrant, in dense terminal 

 capitate corymbose cymes, or terminating the short .axillary branches. 

 Calyx abont I in. long, densely fulvous-tomentose; teeth linear, £•£ 

 in. long. Corolla glabrous, tube a little longer than the calyx; lobes 

 oblong-lancejlate, acute or mucronate, shorter than the tube. Carpels 

 1-2, globosa, £ in. in diam., surrounded by the calyx-teeth, black when 

 ripe. 



Dehra Dun, Siwaltk range and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Eohil- 

 khand and N". Ondh. Flowers December to April, and usually to 

 some extent during the rainy season. Distrib. Throughout the 

 greater part of India, ascending to 3.000 feet on the Him ilaya, also in 

 Burma and China. It is largely cultivated in gardens as an ornamental 

 shrub. 



2. J. arborescens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3 ; Fl. Ind. (ed, Carey $ Wall.) 

 i,94; Brandis For. Fl. 311; F. B. I. Hi, 594; Watt E. D. ; Kanjildl For. 

 Fl.225; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb.467; Cooke Fl. Bomb. H, 112 ; Praia 

 Beng. PI. 653.— Vern. Chameli, bara kwnda. 



A larare euberect or scandent shrub with hairy branchlets. Leaves 

 opposite, simple, entire; blade 3-5 in. long by 2-3 in. broad, ovate, 

 acute or shortly acuminate, truncate rounded or subcordate at the 



