24 OLE AC EM. [Nyctanthes. 



Dehra Dan, in shady ravines. Flowers May and June. Distrib. 

 Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir to Bhutin up to 8,000 feet ; also 

 on the Kha9ia Hills. 



The following species are cultivated within the area: — 



Jasminum Sambac, Ait. (Arabian or Tuscan Jasmine). An erect or sub- 

 ecandent shrub, very much cultivated in gardens. The fragrant white 

 flowers are sacred to Vishnu, and are largely used by the Hindus for 

 making into garlands. This shrub is believed to be indigenous in 

 S. India. 



Jasminum humile, L. An erect shrub with alternate 3-f oliolate or pinnate 

 leaves and bright yellow flowers. Wild on the W. Himalaya up to 

 9,000 feet, also on the Salt Range, and on Mt. Abu in Rajputana. Culti- 

 vated within the area and in other parts of India. 



Jasminum officinale, L. (common white Jasmine). A large scandent shrub 

 with opposite imparipinnate leaves and fragrant white flowers. Wild 

 in Kashmir, Afghanistan and Persia, and apparently so on the Salt 

 Range. 



Jasminum grandiflorum, L. (Spanish Jasmine). A large subscandent 

 shrub with opposite imparipinnate leaves. The very fragrant flowers 

 larger than those of J. officinale, are white and streaked with pink 

 outside. It is wild on the W. Himalaya up to 7,000 feet, and is exten- 

 sively cultivated in gardens within the area. The flowers are much 

 used by the natives for making into garlands. 



2. NYCTANTHES, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 603. 



Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite, ovate, entire or toothed. 

 Flowers sessile, in small peduncled and bracteate heads disposed in 

 terminal trichotomous cymes. Calyx ovoid -cylindric, subtruncate, 

 finally splitting or deciduous. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, 

 orange-coloured, lobes 4-8, imbricate in bud, spreading, white 

 Anthers 2, subsessile near the tcp of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2- 

 celled ; style cylindric, very shortly bifid ; ovules 1 in each cell, erect, 

 basal. Capsule orbicular, dorsally compressed, separating when ripe 

 into 2 subdiscoid 1 -seeded carpels. Seed erect, orbicular, flattened, 

 testa thin, albumen 0, cotyledons flat, radicle inferior. — Species 2, 

 one Indian and another in Sumatra. 



N. Ar"bor— tristis, Linn. Sp. PI. 6 ; Rovh. FL Ind. (ed. Carey Sf Wall.) 

 i., 85 ; Royle III. 268 ; Brandis For. Fl. 314 ; F. B. I. iii, 603 ; Watt E. D. ; 

 Kanjildl For. Fl. 227 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 469; Collett Fl. Siml, 

 308 ; Prain Beng. PI. 660; -Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 115.— Yern. Harsingdr; 

 burri (Dehra Dun). 



A shrub or small tree with rough 4-angular branches. Leaves patioled, 

 4-5 in. long by 2-2§ in. wiie, ovate, acute or acuminate, base rounded 



