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sometimes polygamous or dioecious, arranged in terminal or axillary 

 trichotomous cymes or panicles, rarely fascicled or racemose. Calyx 

 small, truncate or 4-or more-lobed. Corolla rronopetalous, rarely 

 4-9-petalcus or ; tube long or short ; lobes imbricate or valvate 

 in bud. Stamens 2 (in the Indian species), inserted on the corolla, 

 or (in the polypetalous or apetalcus genera) hypogynous, filaments 

 usually short, anthers oblong. Ovary free, 2-celled, stigma simple 

 or 2-loled ; ovules usually two in each cell, attached to tie inner 

 angle near the apex or base. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, or a berry 

 or drupe. Seeds solitary or two in each cell, erect or pendulous, 

 albumen fleshy horny or 0, embryo straight, radicle inferior or 

 superior. Species about 280, in tropical and temperate regions. 



Corolla-lobes imbricate in lud, usually more 

 than four. 



Fruit a berry, 2-lobed or (by abortion) 

 simple. Usually scandent shrubs with 

 simple or compound leaves . . . 1. JASMINUM. 



Fruit a flattened capsule. A large shrub 

 or small tree with simple leaves . . 2. NYCTANTHES. 



Fruit an olxvoid capsule.- A tree with 



compound leaves . . .3. SCHREBERA. 



Corolla-lobes valvate in bud, not more than 

 four, leaves simple. 



Petals nearly free or connate in pairs . 4. LINOCIERA. 



Petals ctnnate in a short tube or some- 

 times absent . . 5. OLEA. 



1. JASMINUM, Linn. ; PL Brit. Ind. iii, 591. 



Shrubs, erect or scandent. Leaves opposite, rarely alternate, simple 

 3-foliolate or impavipinnate. Flowers usually fragrant, arranged 

 in terminal cr axillary cymes, rarely solitary. Calyx 4-9-fid. or 

 -partite. Corolla salver-shaped, white pink or yellow, tube narrow ; 

 lobes 4-10 or more, spreading, imbricate in bud. Stamens 2, not 

 exserted, filaments very short, anthers attached near their bases on 

 the back, connective usually mucronate. Ovary 2-celled; style 

 cyliudric, short ; stigma simple or 2-lobed ; ovules 2 in each cell, 

 attached near the base. Berry didymous, or by suppression simple ; 

 carpels globose ellipsoid or elongate. Seeds usually solitary in each. 



