OLEACEi^ 



CURLED-LEAVED JASMINE, Jamiinum revohUnm. 



VV^alls, arbours. May— October. Requires warm, sunny aspect. 



Flowers bright yellow, fragrant, in a compound terminal cort/mbose panicle, 

 pedicels longer than calyx ; Caly.v teeth 5, shorter than tube ; CoJ'olla salver-shaped, 

 lobes 5, obtuse, ovate, shorter than tube ; Fruit a berry, globose, didymous. 



Leaves- alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets 5-7, ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, 

 shortly petiolate, coriaceous, glabrous, dark glossy green, i-2 ins. long. 



A sub-evergreen cliiubing shrub, 10-20 ft. ; Branches angled. 



Native of N. India ; introduced 1812. A form of J. humile. 



WALLICH'S JASMINE, Jasminum ■wallichianum. 



Walls, arbours. June— October. Best in sunny situation. 



Floivers bright yellow, smaller than J. revolutiim ; InJJorescence terminal, 

 sub-corymbose ; peduncles elongated, one-flowered ; Corolla lobes 5 or G, obtuse ; 

 Fruit a berry. 



Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, leaflets 7-9, ovate-lanceolate or oblong- 

 acuminate, sessile, pubescent Avhen young, dark green. 



An evergreen climlnng shrub, 10-20 ft. ; dense, softly tomentose. 



Native of N. India ; introduced 1827. Named in honour of Dr. Wallich. A 

 form of ./. humile. Synonymous with ./. pubigcriim (L. pubes, eris, downy 

 pubescent). 



Class I Dicotyledons 



Division III. . . . Gamopetalce 

 Natural Oudeu . . . Oleacece 



Shrubs or trees with usually opposite, exstipulate, simple, or pinnate leaves, 



and regular flowers, mostly hermaphrodite, rarely dioecious or polygamous ; 



Calij.v inferior, 4, or many, tootlicd or lobed, sometimes wanting ; Corolla 



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