322 LOGANIACEAE. 
GELSEMIUM. Carolina Jessamine. 
(Family Loganiaceae). 
Woody twiners: evergreen. 
Stems terete or somewhat dilated 
and angled at the nodes, slender, 
branched: pith white, chambered 
at the nodes and finally excavated 
between them. Buds small, soli- 
tary, sessile, oblong or conical, 
with about 2 pairs of scales, or 
the flower-buds much larger and 
with numerous exposed scales. 
Leaf-scars opposite, somewhat 
elevated, crescent-shaped: bundle- 
trace 1, transverse: stipule-scars 
minute and indistinct, connected 
by a transverse line. Leaves lan- 
ceolate or ovate, petioled, entire. 
The Carolina jessamine, which is 
tender except in the South, is 
very attractive in early spring 
when its fragrant yellow flowers 
expand. Its roots are of medicinal 
value. Strychnine is the product of another member, Strych- 
nos, of the same family. 
Stems purplish, puberulent. G. sempervirens. 
