Jasminum.'] xcn. OLEACEJ;. (C. B. Clarke.) 591 



TRIBE IV. Oleineee. Fruit a drupe or "berry. Corolla small. Radicle 

 superior (except Myxopyrum). 



* Corolla-lobes imbricate ; seeds albuminous* 



Flowers fascicled or in very short racemes 6. OSMANTHUS. 



** Corolla-lobes valvate or petals distinct in pairs or 0. 



Petals in pairs or distinct or very shortly united into a tube, in- 

 florescence axillary 7. LINOCIBBA. 



Corolla tubular or 0, inflorescence axillary except in 0. glanduli- 



fera . 8. OLEA. 



Panicles terminal 9. LIGTJSTRUM. 



Large scandent shrubs, leaves 3-nerved 10. MYXOPYBUM. 



1. JASBIINUltt, Linn. 



Shrubs, scandent or erect. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple 3-foliolate 

 or unequally pinnate ; petiole nearly always articulated. Cymes 3- or 2-choto- 

 mous, simple or flowers rarely solitary ; bracts linear and small, or ovate, some- 

 times petaloid. Calyx 4-9-fid, tube funnel-shaped rarely subcylindrie, teeth 

 linear long or short or 0. Corolla salver-shaped, white pink or yellow, tube 

 narrow, lobes 4-10, patent, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, included in the 

 corolla-tube, filaments very short; anther oblong, connective usually shortly 

 produced and triangular. Ovary 2-celled ; style cylindric, stigmas 2 linear, 

 long or short or subcombined ; ovules 2 in each cell, near the base. Berry 

 didymous, or often, by suppression, simple ; carpels globose ellipsoid or elongate. 

 Seed in each carpel 1, rarely 2, erect, exalbuminous : radicle inferior. DISTRIB. 

 Species 90, in the tropics or warm temperate parts of the Old World. 



* Leaves all simple. 



t Calyx pubescent. (The series proceeds from the species with long to those 

 with short calyx-teeth.) 



The species are generally -dimorphic, having a long- and a short-styled form : 

 Wight founded two species on this solitary character out of J. auric ulatum. It has 

 not been found practicable to use characters drawn from the style and stigma in the 

 discrimination of the species. 



1. J. Sambac, Ait. Hort. Kew. i. 8 ;- leaves short>-petioled ovate nearly 

 glabrous, cymes lax few-flowered, bracts small, calyx-teeth subulate. Bot. Rey. 

 t. 1 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1786 ; Wall. Cat. 2868; DC. Prodr. viii. 301 ; Wight Ic. t. 

 704; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137 ; Brandt For. Fl. 311 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 153, 

 in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 242. J. fragrans, Salisb. Prodr. 12. J. undula- 

 tum, Willd. Sp. PL i. 36, not of Ker. J. Zambac, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 2, Fl. 

 2nd. ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 87. J. quinqueflorum, Heyne-, Wall. Cat. 2878; 

 DC. I. c. 302. J. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 2880, not of Willd. Nyctanthes 

 Sambac and undulatum, Linn. Sp. PI. 8. Mogorium Sambac, Lamk. Diet. iv. 

 210, III. t. 6, fig. 1. M. undulatum, Lamk. Diet. iv. 212. Rheede Hort. Mai. 

 vi. tt. 50, 51, 55. Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 58, fig. 2. Mallica, Asphota and Sup- 

 tula, Jones in As. Research, iv. 245. 



BENGAL to CEYLON and BIEMA; alt. 0-2000 ft., common. DISTKIB. Much cul- 

 tivated throughout India, and in the tropics of both^ hemispheres. 



Scandent; branchlets pubescent. Leaves opposite or sometimes ternate, thinly 

 membranous, varying from 1 to 5 in., sometimes on the same bush, acute or obtuse, 

 base cuneate or rounded, nerves beneath pubescent or glabrous, primary often tufted 

 in the axils beneath, secondary nerves distinct ; petiole \ in. Cymes about 3-flowered 



