592 



xcn. OLEACEJE. (C. B. Clarke.) 



[Ja 



(or many-flowered in cultivation), pubescent ; pedicels 0-^ in., usually distinct ; bi 

 0- in., linear ; flowers white, fragrant. Calyx-teeth \ in., pubescent (in cultivation 

 often nearly glabrous). Corolla-tube % in. ; lobes in., oblong, acute or obtuse, or in 

 cultivation orbicular. Ripe carpels 1-2, globose, in. diam., black, surrounded by 

 the suberect subulate calyx-teeth, 



VAB. 1. Sambac proper ; corolla-tube not twice the length of the calyx. 



VAB. 2. Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 2871 (sp.) ; leaves small, corolla-tube 2-5 times as 

 long as the calyx-teeth. Deccan Peninsula ; Heyne. Leaves 1-1 in. Calyx-teeth 

 pj-^ in.' Corolla-tube ^ in. Style sometimes as long as corolla-tube (unlike any in 

 J. Sambac type, bu in this polymorphic genus, little reliance can be placed on this 

 character). Forms of J. Sambac approaching this var. are in cultivation in Bengal ; 

 it appears from Eottler's herb, to have been (as Wallich records under Wall. Cat. 

 2871) the typical J. undulatum, Heyne, and therefore of Linnaeus, Willd., and the- 

 older authors. It is probably a cultivated var. of J. Sambac as none of the example* 

 appear to be native ones. 



2. J. undulatum, Ker in Sot. Reg. t. 436, not of Willd. ; leaves short- 

 petioled ovate-lanceolate pubescent on the nerves beneath, cymes dense often 

 hardly exceeding the uppermost leaves, calyx-teeth - in. subulate pubescent. 

 DC. Prodr. viii. 302, syn. excl. J. amplexicaule and J. aristatum, Watt. Cat. 

 2853 and 2875 ; DC. Prodr. 1. c. 306, 314. J. scandens, Griff. Itin. Notes, 102,. 

 not of Vahl. Jasminum sp. n. 597, Griff. Itin. Notes, 36. Jasminum sp. n. 

 33, Herb. Ind. Or. tf. f. $ T. 



SIKKIM, BHOTAN and KHASIA, alt. 1-5000 ft., common; Griffith, H.f. $ T., &c. 

 DISTBIB. South China to Hongkong. 



Scandent ; branchlets hairy. Leaves 2% by 1 in., acute, base rounded often cor- 

 date, obscurely hairy or usually glabrescent except the nerves beneath ; secondary 

 nervation obscure; petiole in. Cymes capitate, often on short lateral branches; 

 pedicels O-jg in., pilose or nearly glabrous ; bracts 0, or 1-3 ovate-lanceolate among 

 the flowers, the two subtending leaves green, often 1 in. long. Flowers white, some- 

 what fragrant. Corolla-tube in., lobes f in., oblong, acute. Carpels 1-2, globose, 

 in. diam., black, surrounded by the suberect subulate calyx-teeth. 



3. J. pubescens, Willd. Sp. PI. i. 37 ; hairy, leaves ovate acute, cymes 

 dense often hardly exceeding the uppermost leaves, calyx-teeth |-f in. subulate 

 densely villous. 'Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3, and Fl. 2nd. ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 90 ; 

 Don Prodr. 105 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 302 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 138. J. hir- 

 sutum, Willd. I c. 36 ; Smith Exot. Bot. ii. 117, t. 118 ; Bot. Reg. t. 15 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1991 ; Watt. Cat. 2852 ; Wight Ic. t. 702 ; Brand. For. Fl. 312 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl ii. 154, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 242. J. multiflorum, Roth 

 Nov. Sp. 6 (?); Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 496; DC. I.e. 303. J. congestum, Watt. 

 Cat. 2874; DC. I.e. 314. J. bracteatum (by error fractiatum}, Wight Ic. t. 

 1248 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 138. Nyctanthes pubescens, Rets Obs. v. 9, 

 N. multiflora, Burm. FL Ind. 5, t. 3, fig. 1. Mogorium pubescens, Lanik. Diet* 

 iv. 213. 



INDIA, from the HIMALAYA to CEYLON and TENASSERIM, alt. 0-3000 ft., common. 

 DISTBIB. Birma, China. 



Scandent; branchlets, pedicels and calyx densely fulvous-villous. Calyx-teeth 

 with patent yellow hairs, erect or curved in fruit. Otherwise as in J. undulatum, .- 

 Ker, which has more acuminate, less hairy leaves. Nyctanthes hirsuta, Linn. Sp. 

 PI. 8\ is generally taken for this and the name hirsutum preferred, but Linnaeus 

 founded his plant on Eheede Hort. Mai. yf. t. 48, which is n6t J. pubescens. Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. vi. t. 54 is usually quoted for J. pubescens, but from the shape of the leaves 

 it seems more likely to be J, Rottlerianum or J. Thwaitesii. The. name J. multiflorum, 

 Koth, has been much disputed : Roth says he took it from Heyne, but Heyne's 

 original plant with the ticket descriptive of J. multiflorum, in his handwriting, is 

 preserved in Herb. Wight, and is J. Rottlerianum. This however could not have been 



