JASMINEACE.E. I. JASMINCM. 



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girded by any disk, -celled ; cells 1 -seeded; ovula erect. 

 Style 1 ; stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a didymous berry or a bipar- 

 tible capsule. Albumen sparing or wanting. Embryo straight, 

 with an inferior radicle. Usually twining shrubs. Leaves op- 

 posite, simple, but often compound, either ternate or impari- 

 pinnate ; having the petioles in most of the species articulated. 

 Flowers opposite, disposed in corymbs. 



This order differs sufficiently from Oletrue in the situation of 

 the ovula, structure of the seeds, as also in the division and aesti- 

 vation of the corolla ; but it agrees with it in the corolla being 

 regular and diandrous, and in the fruit being either baccate or 

 capsular, but scarcely in habit. In Nyctanthes the mature seeds 

 have hardlv any albumen, while it is copious in the immature 

 seeds. Fragrance is the predominant property of the Jasmine 

 tribe, and has made it for ages the favourite of poets and of the 

 people : this fragrance arises from an oil, which can be extracted 

 so as to retain its perfume. 



Synopsis of the genera. 



1 JASMI'NCM. Corolla 4-8-cleft (f. 11. 6. f. 10. a.). Berry 

 didvmous. Seeds without albumen. 



. NVCTA'XTHES. Calyx entire. Corolla 5-lobed. Capsule 

 bipartite. Seeds albuminous. 



I. JASMTNUM (Linnaeus derives this name from ia, la, a 

 violet and oo-^ij, osme, smell ; but the scent of the flowers has 

 no resemblance to that of the violet.) Forskoel. aegyp- arab. 

 p. 59. says that the Arabs call it Jasmin (ysmym).) Dodon. 

 pempt. p. 1557. Tourn. inst. 368. Lin. gen.no. 17. Juss. 

 uen. 106. R. Br. prod. p. 521. Gaertn. fruct. 1. p. 196. t. 42. 

 Lam. ill. t. 7. Mogorium, Lam. 



LIN. SYST. Didndria, Monogynia. Calyx tubular, 5-8- 

 toothed or 5 (f. 1 1. fc.) -8 (f. 10. a.) -cleft. Corolla 5 (f. 11.6. 

 f. 10. a.) -8-cleft. Stigma 2-lobed or bifid. Berry didymous, 

 having one of the lobes usually abortive. Seeds without albu- 

 men. Usually twining shrubs. Leaves simple or compound ; 

 petioles articulated. Flowers white or yellow. 



* Leaves simple. Calyx cleft. 



1 J. SA'MBAC (Ait. hort. kew.l. p. 8.) twining; leavesalmost 

 sessile, membranous, from cordate to oblong, acute or obtuse, 

 glabrous ; calycine segments 5-9, subulate ; berries globular ; 

 branches, petioles, and peduncles downy. ^ . / ~ l . S. Native of 

 the East Indies. Desf. ann. mus. 4. p. 20. Sims, bot. mag. 

 1785. Ker. bot. reg. t. 1. Mogorium, Sambac. Lam. diet. 4. 

 p. 210. J. gimea, Zucc. ? Nyctanthes Sambac, Lin. spec. 1. 

 p. 8. Burm. zeyl. p. 128. t. 58. f. 2. Leaves waved, and 

 sometimes scolloped, smooth, except while young, but there are 

 generally tufts of down in the axils of the veins beneath. 

 Flowers generally forming small trichotomous umbellets, white, 

 fragrant. Berries black. From this species we have the com- 

 mon double, and rose or great flowered, and full Moogaries 

 abian or Tuscan jasmines.) These are always raised from 

 layers, even in India, and have been improved by culture. The 

 plant that bears the common double sort still retains its twining 

 habit, but it is lost in the great rose, or full-flowered sort : here 

 the branches are erect or spreading, but never twining. The 

 \!/ctanthes undulala, Willd. spec. 2. p. 8. is probably nothing 

 but a variety of/. Sdmbac. 



Jar. a, Single-jton-ered Arabian jasmine. J. undulatum, 

 Willd. spec. 1. p. 36. Mallica and Asphota, Asiat. res. 4. p. 

 04,5. Rheed. mal. 6. p 97. t. 55. 



I'ar. /3, Double-flowered Arabian jasmine. J. Sambac, var. 

 flore pleno, Andr. bot. rep. 497. Rheed. mal. 6. p. 87. t. 50. 

 Burm. zeyl. 128. t. 58. f. 2. Humph, amb. 5. p. 52. t. 30. 



far. y, Great double Arabian or Tuscan jasmine. J. Sambac, 

 Ker. bot. reg. 497. Rheed. mal. 6. p. 89. t. 51. 



far. , trifolialum ; leaves 3 in a whorl; flowers double. 

 Nyctanthes grandiflora, Lour. coch. p. 21. Nyct. trifoliata, 

 Vahl. enum. 1. p. 26. 



Sambac or Arabian Jasmine. Fl. year. Clt. 1665. Sh. tw. 



J. QDINQUEFLORCM (Heyne, herb, ex Wall. cat. no. 2878.) 

 branches, peduncles, calyxes, and petioles downy ; leaves ob- 

 long, sometimes short-acuminated, always mucronate ; calycine 

 segments 8, long-subulate ; corolla almost semi-double, of many 

 lanceolate segments ; peduncles terminal, 3-5-flowered. fj . w . S. 

 Native of the East Indies, at Gongachora and Patna. J. san- 

 jurium, Hanailt. mss. Flowers white. Nearly allied to J. Sdmbac. 



Var. /3, pubescens ; leaves rounded ; plant more downy ; co- 

 rolla with fewer segments. ^. w . S. Native of the East 

 Indies, at Mongger. J. pubescens, Hamilt. mss. ex Wall. cat. 

 no. 2880. 



Fice-JloKered Jasmine. Shrub cl. 



3 J. SCA'KDEKS (Vahl. symb. bot. 3. p. 2. enum. 1. p. 27.) 

 twining, glabrous; leaves cordate, ovate- oblong, entire, acu- 

 minated, shining ; corvmbs globular, terminal, rrichotomous ; 

 calycine segments 6-7, bristle-shaped, hairy ; segments of co- 

 rolla 6-8, lanceolate, very acute, almost die length of tube. 



f?. / "\ S. Native of the East Indies, particularly in Bengal, 

 Chittagong, and Java. Nyctanthes scandens, Rets. obs. 5. 

 p. 9. Mogorium scandens, Lam. diet. 4. p. 210. Peduncles 

 and pedicels short, villous as well as the calyxes. Flowers pure 

 white, delightfully fragrant. 



Climbing Jasmine. Fl. July. Clt. 1 820. Shrub twining. 



4 J. GLA'BRUM (Horsfield ex Link, jahrb. 1-3. H. p. 31. 

 Blum, bijdr. p. 679.) scandent ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, 

 downy on the margins and the ribs beneath, as well as the pe- 

 tioles and branchlets ; peduncles axillary ; calycine segments 

 subulate, downy. Tj . ^. S. Native of Java, about Batavia. 

 Corolla of 9 narrow segments. Branches terete. 



Glabrous Jasmine. Shrub cl. 



5 J. ELOXGA'TUM (Vahl. enum. 1. p. 28. Willd. spec. 1. 

 p. 37.) climbing, villous ; leaves opposite or alternate, lanceolate 

 or ovate-oblong ; corymbs trichotomous ; segments of corolla 

 8-12, linear; calyx 5-6-cleft : segments subulate. ^ . w . S. 

 Native of the East Indies, in forests near the mouth of the 

 Hoogly, in Bengal, and of Java. Nyctanthes elongata, Lin. syst. 

 56. suppl. 82. Berg. act. angl. 1772. p. 290. 1. 11. J. Roxburgh- 

 ianum, Wall. cat. no. 2870. Flowers pretty large, pure white, 

 fragrant. Pedicels clavate. Corolla having the tube much swelled 

 towards the mouth, and with the edges of the segments revolute. 



far. fi ; leaves all somewhat cordate at the base, smoothish 

 above. fj . w . S. Native of Java, about Linga Jattie, at the 

 foot of Mount Tjerimai, among bushes. Blum, bijdr. p. 678. 



Elongated Jasmine. Fl. April, May. Clt. 1820. Shrub cl. 



6 J. GLABRIU'SCULUM (Blum, bijdr. p. 679.) subscandent ; 

 leaves opposite, rarely alternate, ovate, acuminated, rounded at 

 the base, glabrous, downy on the ribs beneath, as well as the 

 branchlets ; cymes terminal, undivided ; calycine segments su- 

 bulate. Jj . w . S. Native of Java, about Linga Jattie, among 

 bushes, in the province of Cheribon. Nearly allied to /. elon- 

 gatum. 



Smoothish Jasmine. Fl. year. Shrub cl. 



7 J. PCBE'SCENS (Willd. spec. 1. p. 37.) sarmentose, downy ; 

 leaves cordate, mucronate, tomentose beneath and on the pe- 

 tioles, at length naked above : the upper ones forming an invo- 

 lucrum round the umbel ; umbels terminal, sessile ; calyx of 6-8 

 plumose, filiform segments ; segments of corolla 6-9, lanceolate, 



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