288 OLEACEAE. 



Jasminum Sambac (L.) Ait., Arabian Jasmine, East Indian, is a shrub 

 up to 5° high, with slender, pubescent, often straggling branches, ovate entire 

 nearly glabrous leaves IJ'-S' long Avith short pubescent petioles, the white 

 fragrant, often double flowers about f long in short terminal racemes, the 

 calyx with about 8 linear-subulate lobes, the corolla-lobes broadly oval or 

 nearly orbicular. It is commonly planted for ornament. [J. calophyllum of 

 A. H. Moore?] 



Jasminum htimile L., Italian Yellow Jasmine, of tropical Asia, is a 

 glabrous vine-like shrub, with branches sometimes 15° long, the petioled pin- 

 nate leaves 4'-7' long, the leaflets 3-7 (mostly 5) ovate to lanceolate, acute, 

 short-stalked; the bright yellow flowers are in loose terminal corymbs, slender- 

 pedicelled, the smaU calyx 5-toothed, the corolla about 1' long with obtuse 

 lobes. It is freely planted for ornament. [J. revolutum Sims; J. fruticans 

 of Lefroy and of H. B. Small.] 



Jasminum grandiflorum L., Eoyal Jasmine, of the East Indies, also 

 vine-like, with slender branches, petioled pinnate leaves 6' long or less, with 5 

 or 7, elliptic or ovate leaflets V-1' long, the lateral ones mostly obtuse and 

 mucronate, the terminal one acute or acuminate, the loosely corymbose, 

 slender-pedicelled, white flowers with a slender corolla-tube about 1' long, the 

 limb about V broad, the subulate calyx-teeth about one-fourth as long as the 

 corolla-tube, is commonly planted for ornament. 



Jasminum officinale L., Poet's Jasmine, Asiatic, similar to J. grandi- 

 florum but with all the leaflets acute or acuminate, the corolla somewhat 

 smaller and the calyx-teeth longer, is occasionally cultivated. 



Jasminum primulinum Hemsl., Primrose Jasmine, Chinese, occasionally 

 planted for ornament, is a slender-stemmed glabrous vine, with short-petioled, 

 3-foliolate leaves, the leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or bluntish, 

 V-2i' long, and large showy axillary and solitary flowers, about IJ' broad, 

 their peduncles several-bracted. The plant grows vigorously but does not 

 flower profusely. 



Jasminum undulatum Ker, Hairy White Jasmine, of India, a climbing 

 vine, with simple short-petioled ovate-lanceolate acuminate leaves about 2' 

 long, glabrous and shining above, pubescent beneath, the flowers in small 

 terminal cymes, the linear-filiform calyx-teeth densely pubescent, the white 

 corolla with a narrow tube about 1' long, its narrow, acute lobes ^'-f long, is 

 occasionally planted for ornament. 



2. FORESTrERA Poiret. 



Shrubs or trees, the leaves opposite, deciduous, simple. Flowers incon- 

 spicuous, mainly polygamo-dioecious, in small lateral clusters or racemes on the 

 branchlets of the preceding year. Calyx usually present but small, its tube 

 very short, the lobes 4-6, unequal. Corolla wanting, or rarely of 1 or 2 decid- 

 uous petals. Stamens 2-4; anthers rather extrorse. Ovary 2-celled; stigmas 

 thick, sometimes 2-lobed. Ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous Drupe subglobose 

 to oblong. Seeds solitary or rarely 2, the testa membranous, the endosperm 

 fleshy. [In honor of Charles Le Forestier, a French physician.] About 15 

 species, natives of America. Type species: Forestiera acuminata (Michx.) 

 Poiret. 



