22 OLEACE^Z. [JASMINUM. 



carpel, erect, exalbuininous, radicle inferior. Species about^ 90, 

 inhabiting Asia, Africa and Australia, and one is indigenous in S. 

 Europe. 



Leaves simple 



Leaves ovate, calyx densely pubescent. 

 Flowera sessile, or subsessile, in compact 

 cymes. A scandent shrub . . . 1. J. pubeseens, 



Flowers pedicelled, in lax cymes. A large 



erect or scandent shrub . . . 2. J. arliorescens. 



Leaves narrowly lanceolate or ellipt'.c, calyx 



glabrous or nearly so. An erect shrub . 3. J. brevipetiolatutn. 

 Leaves imparipinnate. A climbing shrub . 4. J> dispevmum. 



1. J. pufcesceus, Willd. Sp. PL i, 37 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey $ Wall 

 i t 90 ; Don Prod. 105 ; F. B. I. Hi, 592 ; Watt E. D. ; Kanjildl For. Fl. 

 .225; Gamble Han. Ind. Timb. 468; Prain Beng. PL 659; Cooke FL 

 Bomb. ii, in. J. hirsutum, Willd. s Brandis For. ,Fl. 312. Vern. 



"Chameli, kunda. 



A scandent shrub. Branchlets and young parts densely fulvous-tomentose. 

 Leaves opposite, simple, ovate, acute or mucrouate, blade l?-2^ in. 

 long by 1-2 in. broad, base rounded or cordate, soft'y pubescent on 

 both surfaces especially on the veins beneath, finally subglabrous 

 above ; main lateral nerves 4-6 pairs ; petiole -f in., densely tomen- 

 tose. Flowers sessile or nearly so, white, fragrant, in dense terminal 

 capitate corymbose cymes, or terminating the short axillary branches. 

 Calyx about \ in. long, densely fulvous-tomentose; teeth linear, 

 in. iong. Corolla glabrous, tube a little longer than the calyx; lobes 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute or mucronate, shorter than the tube. Carpels 

 1-2, globose, i in. in diain., surrounded by the calyx-teeth, black when 

 ripe. 



T)ehra Dun, Siwalik ruige and in the Sub-Himalayan tracts of Bohil- 

 khand and N. Ondh. Flowers December to April, and usually to 

 some extent during the rainy season. DISTBIB. Throughout the 

 greater part of India, ascending to 3,000 feet on the Himalaya, also in 

 Burma and China. It is largely cultivated in gardens as an ornamental 

 shrub. 



2, J. arborescens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 3 ; Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey $ Wall.) 

 494f Brandis For. Fl. 311; F. B. I. Hi, 594; Watt E. D.; Kanjildl For. 



Fl.225; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 467,- Oooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 112; Prain 

 JBeng. PI. 05S. Vern. Chameli, bara kunda. 



.A large, suberect or scandent shrub with hairy braachlets. Leaves 

 opposite, simple, entire ; blade 3-5 in. long by 2-3 in. broad, ovate, 

 acute or shortly acuminate, truncate rounded or subcordate afc the 



