JASMINUM.] OLEACE^. 2& 



base, softly tomentoee when young, at length glabrous, main lateral 

 nerves 6-8 pairs; petiole -| in. loner. Flowers pedicelled, white, 

 fragrant, arranged in lax 3-chotomous terminal hairy cymes ; bracts 

 linear, about as long as the pedicels. Calyx-teeth -^ % in. long, linear 

 or subclavate, hairy. Corolla glabrous, tube about in. long ; lobes 

 usually 9, -f in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Carpels 

 usually solitary, in. long ; ellipsoid, black when ripe. 



Western portion of Dehra Dun and along the southern side of the Siwalik 

 range, also in the submontane tracts of Echilkhand and N. Oudh. 

 Flowers during April and May. DISTRIB. Bengal, Cent, and S. India, 

 ascending to 3,000 feet on the Himalaya. The scandent form (Rox- 

 burgh's J. latifolium) is also found in Dehra Dun and in other parts 

 of the area. It differs in no other respect from the type. 



3. J. brevipetiolatum, Duthie in Brandis Indian Trees, p. 450. 



A shrub or small tree. Young parts and branches of inflorescence 

 sparingly pubescent. Stems obtusely quadrangular, smooth. Leaves 

 simple, opposite or suboppositel shortly petioled ; blade 2- 4 in. long 

 narrowly lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sub- 

 coriaceous and quite globuse ; margins entire, slightly recurved, 

 midrib stout and prominent beneath ; main lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, 

 slender , forming intermarginal loops ; petiole about in. long. Flwwers 

 white, arranged in lax terminal corymbose or panicled cymes ; pedicels 

 about i in. long ; bracts much shorter than the pedicels, lanceolate- 

 acuminate. Calyx % in. long, almost glabrous, tube subhemispheric ; 

 teeth about as long as the tube, elongating in fruit, linear or subclavate, 

 thick. Corolla f in. long, tube twice as longr as the narrowly elliptic 

 obtuse lobes. Fruit oval, about in. long, dark purplish-brown when 

 ripe. 



Forests in the Pilibhit district of Eohilkhand and in the Kheri district 

 of N. Oudh (Duthie's collector). Flowers in May. This species is 

 very near J. laurifolium, Roxb., but differs from it by the much shorter 

 and thicker calyx-lobes and by the shorter and broader corolla-lobes. 



4. J. dispermum, Wall, in Roxl. Fl. Ind. i (1820) 99 ; PI. As. Ear. w,. 

 46, t. 274 j Don. Prod. 106; Brand. For. Fl. 312; F. B. I. Hi, 602;. 

 Kanjildl For. Fl. 226 ; Collett Fl. Siml. 307. 



A glabrous climbing shrub. Branches divergent, slender, 4-angular. 

 Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, or the upper ones often unifoliolate ; 

 leaflets usually 3-5, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, cordate and 

 3-nerved at the base and with a long slender acuminate apex ; terminal 

 leaflet with a long stalk, the blade 3-4 in. long ; lateral smaller, shortly 

 stalked or subsessile. Flowers many, white or pink, in elongate termi- 

 nal panicles, or few together in rather dense axillary cymes ; bracts 

 minute, pedicels 0-g- in. long. Calyx glabrous or minutely puberulous ; 

 teeth very short, triangular. Corolla-tube about in. long ; lobes ovate 

 or broadly elliptic, shorter than the tube. Carpels 2-seeded, in. long,, 

 ellipsoid, dark purple when ripe. 



