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LOGANIACEAE. 



GELSEMIUM. Carolina Jessamine. 

 (Family Loganiaceae). 



Woody twiners: evergreen. 

 Stems terete or somewhat dilated 

 and angled at the nodes, slender, 

 branched: pith white, chambered 

 at the nodes and finally excavated 

 between them. Buds small, soli- 

 tary, sessile, oblong or conical, 

 with about 2 pairs of scales, or 

 the flower-buds much larger and 

 with numerous exposed scales. 

 Leaf-scars opposite, somewhat 

 elevated, crescent-shaped: bundle- 

 trace 1, transverse: stipule-scars 

 minute and indistinct, connected 

 by a transverse line. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate or ovate, petioled, entire. 



The Carolina jessamine, which is 

 tender except in the South, is 

 very attractive in early spring 

 when its fragrant yellow flowers 

 expand. Its- roots are of medicinal 



value. Strychnine is the product of another member, Strych- 



nos, of the same family. 



Stems purplish, puberulent. G. sempervirens. 



