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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. 



