PLATE 328. 



JASMINIUM MULTIPARTITUM, HOOHST. (in Flora, XXVII, 1844, 825). 



Natural Order, OLEA.CE.E. 



A climbing shrub with white flowers. Stems much branched, wide climbing, 

 terete or furrowed on opposite sides and sligthly compressed at nodes, glabrous, 

 green. Leaves opposite, petiolate, exstipulate, ovate-acuminate to lanceolate, 

 roundi-d or subcordate at base, acute at apex, margins quite entire, veins pinnate, 

 surfaces glabrous, paler beneath, reaching to 2f inches long, 1 to 1 j inch wide 

 above the base ; petiole 3 to 8^ lines long, jointed and knee-bent in the middle. 

 Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, pedunculate, white. Calyx gamosepalous, 

 tube cylindrical, I to 1^ line long, lobes 8 to 10, linear subulate, erect, equalling the 

 tube. Corolla gamopetalous, hypocrateriform, tube slender, terete, up to 1 inch 

 long, limb 8 to 1 1 lobed, lobes linear, acute, ^ to f inch long, white above, pinkish 

 white beneath, 1 to 2 lines wide. Stamens 2, on corolla tube, filaments short, 

 anthers linear-oblong, 2-celled. Ovary superior, 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. Style 

 slender, stigma 2-lobed. Berry didymous, cells 1-seeded, the cells almost com- 

 pletely free from each other, one sometimes absent. 



Habitat: Natal; Near Durban, 150 feet alt, September Wo"d ; Inanda, 1800 

 feet alt, December, Wood No. 356 ; near Durban, October, Wood. 



This is the second species of the genus that has been figure 1 in this work, the 

 other being J. streptopus (Vol 1, p. 50) and in general appearance the plant now 

 figured is very similar to it, but the conspicuous hairs on the leaves and petioles 

 are, in this species, quite absent, and the calyx lobes are much longer. Tt will be 

 noticed that the petioles are jointed, and when the mature leaf has fallen away the 

 hard stiff base of the petiole remains, and most likely is of use in sustaining the 

 plant amongst the low shrubs where it is most frequently found. It is known to 

 the natives as is-Andhla-ka-inkosikazi or Queen's hand. 



Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla opened; 8, stamen; 4, ovary ond portion of style; 

 5, stigma; 6, section of ovary ; 7, fruit, natural size; except Fig. 7, all enlarged. 



