600 xcn. OLBACE^E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Jasminum. 



a less slender corolla, and fruit carpels not half as long ; and is only known in culti- 

 vation in India. 



30. JT. subg'landulosum, Kurz in Trimen Journ. Bot. 1875, p. 329, 

 and For. Fl. ii. 151 ; glabrous, leaves large obovate-oblong shortly acuminate, 

 racemes axillary very lax, calyx broad teeth very short, corolla-tube |-f in., 

 lobes half as long obovate-oblong blunt. 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ; Kurz. PEGU and TENASSERIM, in the tropical forests not in- 

 requent (Kurz). 



Scandent. Leaves 7 by 2f in., base obtusely cuneate, membranous ; nerves 10 

 pairs, secondary distinct. Flowers white ; bracts minute, subulate. Carpels ^ by ^ 

 in., ellipsoid. Description chiefly from Kurz, as his example is very imperfect ; the 

 inflorescence appears strictly cymose, as in the two preceding species ; there is nothing 

 in the material or description to show that it differs from J. attenuatum but in the 

 somewhat larger leaves. 



81. J. smilacifolium, Griff, ms. ; glabrous, leaves large ovate acute 

 coriaceous 3-nerved, cymes axillary and terminal stout compound, calyx-teeth 

 short thick triangular, flowers and fruits large. 



MALACCA ; Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 3698), Maingay. 



A large climber. Leaves 7 by 3f in., base obtuse or almost cordate, very thick, 

 secondary nerves thin distinct ; petiole f in. Cymes 5-20-flowered, not lax ; bracts 

 YJJ in., lanceolate ; pedicels g- in. Calyx-teeth in. Corolla white tinged with 

 pink, tube f-1 in., lobes f by | in., acute. Carpels 1 by |-| in. ; pedicels often 

 greatly enlarged, in. diam. below the fruit. This has been supposed a var. merely 

 of J. crassifolium, Blume, which however has smaller obscurely 3-nerved leaves, and 

 the cymes much slenderer, with pedicels often f in. 



** Leaves (some of them) compound : in J. auriculatum and brevilobum 

 often in appearance simple, the lateral leaflets being only occasionally present 

 and then exceedingly small. (The series proceeds from the less- to the more- 

 compound-leaved species.) 



32. J. auriculatum, Vahl Symb. iii. 1 ; leaves mostly simple ovate 

 some 3-foliolate the lateral leaflets mere auricles, cymes compound many-flowered, 

 corolla-tube - in. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey fy Wall. i. 96; 

 Wall. Cat. 2854; Bot. Reg. t. 264; DC. Prodr. viii. 3Q9, syn. excl ; Wight Ic. 

 t, 700. J. affine and ovalifolium, Wight Ic. tt. 1255, 1256. 



DECCAN PENINSULA and CEYLON, common (cultivated in Scinde, North-west India, 

 Bengal, Siam and Mauritius). 



iScandent ; pubescent or villous, sometimes nearly glabrous. Leaves (when simple 

 and the terminal leaflets) 1 by f in., shortly acute or hardly acuminate, base obtuse 

 or rounded, ashy-pubescent sometimes glabrescent ; nerves few, lowest oblique ; 

 lateral leaflets when present rarely exceeding in. diam. Cymes terminal, paniculate, 

 grey-pubescent ; bracts in., linear ; pedicels 0-| in. Calyx-teeth minute, narrowly 

 oblong. Corolla-lobes % in., elliptic. Carpels in. diam., globose, black. The J. 

 mauritianum, Bojer, reduced to J. auriculatum by Baker (Fl. Maurit. 220) has the 

 leaves subequally 3-foliolate, the corolla-tube nearly 1 in. J. affine, Wight, with the 

 style half as long as corolla-tube, and J. ovatifolium, Wight, with the stigmas ex- 

 serted, are dimorphic forms. 



33. J. brevilobum, A. DC. Prodr. viii. 307; leaves mostly simple ovate, 

 some 3-foliolate the lateral leaflets mere auricles, cymes sessile subcapitate, 

 corolla-tube f-1 in. J. nilagiricum, PL ffohenack. n. 1007, 



MTS. of the DECCAN PENINSULA; Nilgherries, Pulneys, &c., alt. 3-6000 ft., fre- 

 quent ; Gardner, Wight, &c. 



Resembling J. auriculatum ; usually villous or subtomentose, sometimes only 



