Jasminum.~\ xcn. OLEACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 603 



42. J. officinale, Linn.; DC. Prodr. viii. 313; glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves opposite pinnate, leaflets rhomboid oblong acute, calyx-teeth linear long, 

 corolla white tube f in. Hot. Mag. t. 31 ; Brand. For. Fl 313 ; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iv. 43. 



KASHMIB ; alt. 3-9000 ft., frequent. DISTRIB. Cabul, Persia (often cultivated in 

 India, China, Europe, &c.). 



Branches very long, weak, requiring support, hardly scandent. Cymes terminal, 

 1-10-flowered, often leafy ; bracts in., linear; pedicels 0-f in. Calyx-teeth -- in., 

 sometimes as long as the corolla-tube, sometimes (in the same plant) not half so long. 

 Corolla-lobes % by in. Carpels $ by \ in., ellipsoid. 



43. J. grandiflorum, Linn.-, DC. Prodr. viii. 313; glabrous or nearly 

 so, leaves opposite pinnate, leaflets rhomboid-oblong, calyx-teeth linear long, 

 corolla white tube | in. Roxb. Hort. Bang. 3, and FL Ind. ed. Carey fy Wall. 

 i. 98 ; Bot. Reg. t. 91 ; Wall. Cat. 2886 ; Wight Ic. t. 1257 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 313 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 160, and in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 242. J. aureum, 

 Don Prodr. 106; DC. 1. c. 314 ?.Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 52. 



SUBTROPICAL NORTH-WEST HIMALAYA, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; frequent, wild (fide Brandts; 

 elsewhere in India often cultivated). 



Branches subpendent, angular, hardly requiring support. Calyx-teeth about J in., 

 rarely half as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes attaining ^ in. Otherwise 

 hardly distinguishable from J. officinale. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES (not British Indian). 



J. EXTENSUM, Wall. Cat. 2862; DC. Prodr. viii. 308; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 150. 

 Birma. 



J. LIGUSTRIFOLIUM, Wall. ms. ; Bojer Hort. Maurit. 204, DC. Prodr. viii. 305.^ 

 Birma, beyond the British frontier. 



J. TUBIFLORUM, Roxb. Cat. PL (1813), Fl. Ind. ed. Carey $ Wall. i. 96. This is 

 supposed to be the origin of J^OLENANTHUM, DC. Prodr. viii. 306, founded on a 

 specimen cultivated in the Mauritius. Malay Islds. 



J. OBLONGUM, Burm. FL Ind. 6, t. 3, fig. 2; DC. Prodr. viii. 312. Java. 



2. NYCTANTHES, Linn, in part. 



A small tree. Leaves opposite, ovate. Flmvers in small, sessile, bracteate 

 heads disposed in terminal trichotomous cymes. Calyx ovoid-cylindric, 

 subtruncate, finally split or deciduous. Corolla salvershaped ; tube cylindiic, 

 yellow ; lobes 4-8, imbricated in bud, patent, white. Anthers 2, subsessile near 

 the top of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-celled ; style cylindric, very shortly bifid ; 

 ovule 1 in each cell, erect, basal. Capsule orbicular, compressed parallel to 

 the partition, ripe separating into 2 subdiscoid carpels. Seed erect, orbicular, 

 flattened, testa thin, albumen ; cotyledons flat, radicle inferior. 



N. Arbor-tristis, Linn.-, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3, and^/. Ind. ed. Carey $ 

 Wall. i. 85; Wall. Cat. 2846; Bot. Reg. t. 399; Lamk. III. t. 6; DC. Prodr. 

 viii. 314; Bot. Mag. t. 4900; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 240; Eichler in Mart. Brak. 

 vi. pt. i. 317, t. 84, fig. 3 ; Brand. For. Fl. 314 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 155, and in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 240. Parilium Arbor-tristis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 234, t. 

 51. Scabrita scabra, Linn. ; Vahl Symb. ii. 28; Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 265, t. 138. 

 S. triflora, Linn. Mant. i. 37. RheedeHort. Mai. i. 't. 21 Sephalica, Jones in 

 As. Research, iv. 244. 



CENTRAL INDIA, alt. 1-3000 ft., common, to Buudelkund and Burdwan; reappear- 

 ing in the Oudh and North-west Terai (cultivated throughout India, and in both 

 hemispheres). 



