Jasminum.] LI. OLEINE^. 311 



6. JASMINUM, Linn. 



Shrubs or climbers, with opposite, rarely alternate, imparipinnate, or 

 unifoliolate leaves. Flowers white or yellow, in axillary or terminal tri- 

 chotomous cymes. Calyx-lobes 5-10. Corolla-tube cylindrical or clavate, 

 the limb spreading, 5-1 2-lobed, the lobes imbricate, often contorted in the 

 bud. Stamens included in the tube. Ovary 2-celled, 1, 2, rarely 3 ovules 

 in each cell ; style minutely 2-lobed at the tip. Berry 2-lobed almost to 

 the base, or entire by the failure of 1 carpel. Seed usually 1 in each lobe, 

 erect, without albumen ; cotyledons thick and fleshy, radicle inferior. 



Leaves opposite, simple, unifoliolate, the petiole articulate 

 below the middle. 

 Flowers pedicellate, solitary or in lax trichotomous cymes. 



Pubescent; calyx-segments 5-9, longer than calyx-tube 1. J. Sambac. 

 Pubescent ; calyx- segments 5-6, as long as tube or twice 

 its length. 



Erect, not climbing 2. /. arbor escens. 



Climbing 3. /. latifolium. 



Glabrous ; calyx-segments 5-6, as long as tube . . 4. J. glandulosum. 

 Flowers subsessile, in compact corymbose cymes . . 5. J. hirsutum. 

 Leaves opposite, imparipinnate, leaflets 1 or 2 pair ; or leaves 



unifoliolate ......... 6. /. dispermum. 



Leaves opposite, all imparipinnate, leaflets 1-3 pair, the ter- 

 minal largest ; calyx-segments nearly as long as corolla- 

 tube .......... 7. J. officinale. 



Leaves opposite, all imparipinnate, leaflets 3-5 pair, the low- 

 est larger, the upper 1 or 2 pair confluent with the ter- 

 minal leaflet 8. J. grandiflorum. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets 1-5 pair . . 9. /. revolutum. 



There are other species within the range of this Flora ; a selection has been 

 made of the more common kinds. 



1. J. Sambac, Aiton; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 88 j Wight Ic. t. 704. Sans. 

 Mallika, asphota, saptdla ; Pers. Zambac. Vern. Chamba, mugra, bel. 



A shrub, generally climbing, pubescent. Leaves glabrate, opposite, 

 2-3 in. long, on short petioles, elliptic or rotundate, entire, shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate ; main lateral nerves 4-6 pair. Flowers white, fragrant, 

 solitary, or in 3, 5- or 7-flowered terminal cymes. Calyx-segments 5-9, 

 linear, hairy, longer than calyx-tube, and half the length of corolla-tube 

 or more. Berry-lobes subglobose, 1 or 2. 



Cultivated, on account of its delightfully fragrant flowers, in numerous varie- 

 ties, erect and climbing, with larger and smaller, double and single flowers, 

 throughout India, and in most tropical countries. Believed to be indigenous in 

 the peninsula. Fl. H.S. 



2. J. arborescens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 95 ; Wight Ic. t. 699 j a taU 

 shrub : and 3. J. latifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 95 ; Wight Ic. t. 703 ; a 

 climber, are in all other respects so much alike, that with abundant speci- 

 mens before me, from Oudh, the Central Provinces, the North- West Hima- 

 laya, and other parts of India, I find it impossible to draw up distinct 



