87. OLEACE^. [1. Jasminum. 



Stamens 2 on tlie cc .olla-tvibe (hypogynous in apetalous species), 

 anthers deliiscing- laterally or subextrorsely. Ovary free 2-celled, 

 style short or long, stigma simple or 2-lobed. Ovules 1-2, rarely 3-4 

 in each cell, axile near base or apex. Frviit capsular or baccate, 

 drupaceous or dry. Seed 1, or 1 (rarely 2) in each cell, erect or 

 pendulous, albumen present or 0. Embryo straight, radicle superior 

 or inferior. 

 I. Petals imbricate : — 



A. Fruit baccate :— 



Shrubs mostly scandent. L. simple, 3 foliolate or rarely 

 pinnately 5-7-foliolate 1- Jamnimim. 



B. Fruit a dry thin-walled compressed capsule : — 



Leaves simple. A small tree 2. Nyctanthes, 



C. Fruit a pyriform woody capsule : — 



Leaves pinnate. A tree 3. Schrehera. 



II. Petals valvate or in two pairs. Fruit a drupe. Leaves simple -. — 



A. Inflorescence axillary: — 



Petals in pairs, distinct or tube xerj short . . . .1. Llnoclera. 

 Corolla tubular or 3. Olea. 



B. Panicles terminal 6. Ligustrum. 



1. JASMINUM, L. Jasmine. 



Shrubs, usually scandent, rarely undershrubs. Leaves opposite, 

 more rarely alternate, simple or pinnately 3-several-foliolate, petiole 

 usually articulated. Flowers white, pink or yellow in 2-3-chotomous 

 cymes very rarely reduced to a single fioAver, with linear and small 

 or ovate, sometimes petaloid bracts. Calyx with funnel-shaped 

 or cylindric tube and 4-9 sepals or truncate. Corolla salver-shaped, 

 tube narrow, petals 4-10, imbricate in bud. Stamens included, 

 connective usually shortly produced. Stigmas usually 2, ovules 

 usually 2 in each cell near the base. Berry didymous of two globose 

 or oblong carpels or of only one fleshy carpel. Seed 1 rarely 2 in 

 each carpel, erect, exalbuminous, radicle inferior. 



The species are often dimorphic with Ions- and short styled forms, sometimes 

 also with two quite distinct sizes of flowers. The lowest leaves on a shoot are often 

 much smaller and of different shape to the upper ones. 



A. Leaves all simple : — 



1. Scandent. Sepals over •2"-"12" (exc. sometimes arhorescens) : — 



a. Longer sepals over '3" (in small fld, forms otpubescens 



only '2-'3")- Corolla-tube "-i-'TS" : — 

 Cymes 3-5-fld. L. glabrous or nearly so . . . l.samhac. 

 Cymes dense, many-fld, L. pubescent . . .2. pubesceus. 



b. Sepals under "25", usually under '2" : — 



Cymes rather dense. L, glabrous. Cor. -tube "3-35" S. sca»dens. 

 Cymes lax. L. glabrescent. Cor. -tube '^-'o" . 4. arbore&cens. 



2. Shrubby, suberect or diffuse. Sepals under '12" : — 



Shrub. L. ovate, pubescent or glabrescent . . 4'. arhorescens. 

 As in last but densely tomentose .... va,Y. Boxburghianum. 

 Undershrub. L. narrowly lanceolate . . .5. strictum. 

 Bushy or subscandent. Sep. minute or 0. L. small 6. aiiriculatum. 



B. Leaves 3-foliolate (lateral Iflts. sometimes very small) : — 



1. L. pubescent ovate 7-2". A garden shrub . . .6. aarlculatum. 



2. Glabrous, Sepals minute or obsolete : — 



Lflts. lanceolate 3-5" long-acuminate or cordate . . 7. candatum, 

 Lflts. ovate 2-4" acute or acuminate . . . .8. fiexile. 



1. J. sambac, Ait. Vern. Mallika, Balphul, Motiya {teste Nadkarni). 



A scandent or sarmentose shrub Avith pale branchlets, glabrous or 



nearly glabrous shining leaves, thin when dry, with numerous very 



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