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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



Order XLIX. JASMINA^CE^. 



Ord. Char. Calyx tubular, divided or toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, 3-cleft ; 

 aestivation imbricate and twisted. Stamens epipetalous. Ovarium 2-celled. 

 Cells 1-seed'ed. Stt/le 1 . Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a didymous berry, or a 

 biparted capsule. Albumen sparing, or wanting altogether. This diifers 

 from Oleinea;, to which it is nearly allied, by the erect ovula, structure of 

 seeds, and aestivation of corolla. {Don's Mill.^ 



Leaves simple or compound, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous or ever- 

 green ; ternate or imparipinnate, with the petioles for tiie raost part articu- 

 lated. Floiven opposite, in corymbs. Shrubs, deciduous or evergreen ; 

 natives of Europe, Asia, and Amei'ica. 



Genus I. 



JASMrNUM Forskoel. The Jasmine. 



Lin. Si/st. Diandria Monogynia. 

 Schasmin, Ger. ; Gelsomine, 



Identification. Forskoel ^gyp. Arab., p. 59. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 59. 



Synonymes. Mongdrium Lam. ; Jessamine ; Jasmin, Fr. and Ger. 

 Ital. ; Jazmin, Span. 



Dii illation. Linnteus derives this name from ion, a violet, and osme, smell : but the scent of the 

 flowers has no resemblance to that of the violet. Forskoel, in his Mgyp. Arab. p. 59., says that 

 it is taken from the Arabian name of the plant, Ysmym, which appears much more probable. 



Gen. Char., S^c. Calyx tubular, 5 8-toothed or 5 8-cleft. Corolla 5 8-cleft. 

 Stigma 2-lobed or bifid. Berry didymous, having one of the lobes usually 

 abortive. Seeds without albumen. {Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple or compound, opposite, exstipulate, mostly sub-evergreen ; 

 mostly entire. Petioles articulated. Flowers white or yellow, axillary or 

 terminal, odoriferous. Shrubs, usually sub-evergreen, and twining or ram- 

 bling ; natives of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Propagated readily by cuttings 

 in common garden soil, and usually grown against walls. 



S6 ft ] . ,7. FRU^TiCANS L, The Sprig-producing, or shrubby. Jasmine. 



Jdintification. Lin. Sp., 1. p. 9., Syst, ed. 14. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 63. 

 Si/nonyme. J. heterophyllum Mcench, Lob. Adv. p. 389. f. 390. 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 461. ; Schmidt Baum., 3. t. 148. ; our fig. 1271., and^g. 1272. from a 

 living specimen. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, ami 

 simple, glabrous ; leaflets obovate or cuneiform, 

 obtuse. Branches an- 

 gular. Calycine seg- 

 ments subulate. Pe- 

 duncles terminal, by 

 threes. Corolla yel- 

 low, with oblong ob- 

 tuse segments. {Don's 

 Mill.) A sub-ever- 

 green shrub. South of 

 Europe, and through- 

 out the Levant. 

 Height 6 ft. to 8 ft. 

 Introduced in 1 570. 

 Flowers yellow ; May 

 to October. Fruit 

 black ; ripe Nov. 



A very desirable sub-evergreen, either for planting in borders, or again.s. 

 walls ; flowering freely, and ripening abundance of fruit. It sends up numerou' 

 suckers ; which, when it is desired that the plant should assume a garden 



1271. J. fruticans. 



1272. J. friiticans. 



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