Jasmijiuni.] Lxxxii. OLE ace.*: (baker). li» 



opposite, imparipinnate, lJ-2 in. long; leaflets 1-3-jugate, ovate- 

 oblong, rounded or emarginate at the apex, cuneate at the base, sub- 

 glaucescent on both surfaces, very narrowly revolute on the margin, 

 the end one h-'^ in. long, the side ones smaller, very shortly stalked. 

 Inflorescence axillary. 



iMO'wer Guinea. Angola : Mossamedes ; in hushy, sandy pbices on the banks 

 of the River Maiombo near Fomanorala, Welwitsch, 3022. 



43. J. floribundum, K. Br.] DC. Prod. viii. 313. Bianchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate ; leaflets 5, ovate, glabrous, 

 the end one the largest, stalked, 1-1 ^ in. long, the side ones smaller, 

 opposite, nearly sessile. Cymes few-flowered, terminal and axillary; 

 pedicels long. Calyx \ in. long ; teeth subulate, longer than the cam- 

 panulate tube. Corolla white, fragrant ; tube f-f in. long ; segments 

 5, oblong, h in. long. — A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 27 ; Schweinf. Beitr. 

 Fl. Aethiop. 134, 281 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 334. 



irile ]Land. Eritrea: Keren, Steudner, 1352, and between Keren and Adowa, 

 Sieudner, 13b3 (ex En^ler). Upper Sennar : Fazo\i\, ex Schiveinfurth. Abyssinia: 

 Mountaitis of Sanien province, Schimper^ 924 ! near Adowa, DiUoyi <^ Petit (ex 

 Richard), neir Axum, Schimjjer, J.51o, near Addi Geffa, Schimper, 675, and 

 Gondar, Steudner, 1351 (ex Engler). Sboa ; Aliu Amba, Roth, 403! and witliout 

 precise locality, Parkyns ! Somaliland : Dari-a-as, 5000 ft., Mrs. Lort Phillips ! 



Nearly allied to the commonly-cultivated J. officinale, Linn. 



A plant collected by Schweinfurth & Riva (997) in Eritrei, betvveen 

 Saganeiti and Acrour, 6000-7000 ft., resembles J", o^ci«a/e, Linn.; but has only 

 3 leaflets. 



2. SCHREBERA, Iloxb. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 075. 



Calyx campanulate, truncate or shortly toothed. Coi-olla hypo- 

 crateriform ; tube cylindrical ; lobes 4-7, spreading, imbricate. Stamens 

 2, inserted just below the throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments very 

 short. Ovary 2 -celled ; style long, filiform; stigma faintly 2-lobed ; 

 ovules 3-4 in a cell, pendulous from the top of the dissepiments. Cap- 

 sule pyriform or oblong, loculicidally 2-valved down to the base. Seeds 

 pendulous, expanded into a large wing above the nucleus, exalbu- 

 minous ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle inferior. — Trees or erect 

 shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or imparipinnate. Inflorescence a 

 flat-topped panicle with cymose branches ; bracts minute. Flowers 

 smaller than in Jasminum, white or pink. 



Species 16 ; also in South Africa, with 1 in India, and 1 in Peru. 

 Leaves simple. 



Branchlets glabrous. 



Corolla-tube -h in. long 1. ^S". oligantha. 



Corolla- tube |-1 in. long 2. ^, golungensis. 



Branchlets pubescent. 



Leaves shortly petioled. 



Le»ves obtuse, 1-2 in, long . . ,3. S. Buchanani. 



Leaves acute, li-4 in. long . . . 4. 5. platyphylla. 



Leaves with a longer petiole . . . . b. S. trichoclada. 



