1. Jasminum.] 87. OLEACE^. 



simple ovate leaves, but some or all the leaves will be found to have 

 a subsidiary pair of leaflets often reduced to mere auricles, thus 

 making- the leaves 3-foliolate. 



Native of Southern India and Central Provinces but often cultivated in our area. 

 Fl. April-August. Fr. Dec. -Feb. 



Twigs usually densely pubescent. L. -7-2", acute or obtuse and mucronate with 

 rounded base, 'thinly pubesceut or densely pul)escent on the nerves beneath and 

 when young-, rarely quite glabrescent. Petiole -Oo-'a". Fls. •3--4.'' diam. in rather 

 dense cymes terminal and from the upper leaf-axils the whole forming a corymb. 

 Sepals minute or obsolete. Cor. -tube •3---i". Petals -2.5". Ripe carpels globose 

 black •2--25". 



7. J. caudatum, Wall. 



A glabrous climber with opposite 3-foliolate leaves with lanceolate 

 long-acuminate or caudate leaflets, terminal 3-5" lateral rather 

 smaller, sec. n. 5-7 hairy in the nerve axils. Petiole '5-1". Fls. in 

 very slender axillary 1-7-fld. cymes with slender peduncles and long 

 pedicels "3-7", sepals minute, being mere mucronations of the '!" long 

 calyx, corolla with very slender •75-l"l" long (-125", F.B.I.) tube 

 and finely acuminate petals •5-7". Kipe carpels obliquely-oblong 

 •45". 



Ramnagar Hills ! Fl. Aug. -Nov. Fr. Feb. 



8. J. flexile, Vahl. 



A glabrous climber wath opposite 3-foliolate leaves with ovate acute 

 or acuminate leaflets, terminal 2-4" lateral rather smaller, sec. n. 

 5-7 hairy in the nerve axils. Fls. in slender lax axillary and 

 terminal cymes, upper paniculate, sei:)als minute, corolla with tube 

 •7-1" and acute or obtuse petals •5". Ripe carpels 3''. 



Meghasani (Mayurbhanj), rare, elev. 3500 ft. ! Fl. Nov.-Feb. Fr. March. 



There are no better characters for separatino^ j, caudatum and J.Jle.vile than 

 those given in the key, and I think they should both be united under the name of 

 J.. flexile, Vahl. 



The petiole in my specimen of flexile is only "S-^-i", but they are often longer than 

 in J. caudatum, and apparently the plant climbs by them. 



2. NYCTANTHES, L. (in part). 

 A small tree with opposite ovate leaves and mod. -sized flowers in 

 small sessile bracteate heads disposed in terminal 3-chotomous cymes. 

 Calyx ovoid -cylindric, sub-truncate, finally split or deciduous. 

 Corolla salver-shaped white with an orange tube, petals 4-8 imbricate 

 in bud. Ovule 1 in each cell, erect, basal. Fruit orbicular com- 

 pressed papery or leathery, separating into 2 valves. 



Tlie germination is epigeal. The expanded cotyledons are palminerved orbicular 

 1" diam. with attenuate base and a petiole 'S-'lb". The first leaves are coar.sely 

 serrate. 



1. N. arbor-tristis, L. Saparom, K., S. -, Kula marsal, M. ; Har- 



singhar, H. ; Sitik, Sephalika, Beng. ; Kharkhasa, sihara Gond. ? 



(in Sambalpur). 



A small tree with usually drooping 4-augular branchlets, very 



scabrous ovate entire or somewhat toothed acute or sub-acuminate 



leaves 3-5" long and fragrant flowers "7-1" diam. which ojDen in the 



evening and drop next morning. Capsule "75-1" diam., about ^2" thick. 



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