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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 



CHAP. LXXVI. 



OF THE HARDY AND HALF-HARDY LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF THE 

 ORDER JASMINA^CE-ffi. 



GENUS I. 



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JASMFNUM Forskoel. THE JASMINE. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Forskoel ^Egyp. Arab., p. 59. ; Dodon. Pempt, p. 1557. ; Tourn. Inst, 368. ; Lin. 



Gen., No. 17. ; Juss. Gen., 106. : R. Br. Prod., p. 521. ; Gaertn. Fruct., 1. p. 196. 1 42. : Lam. 111., 



t. 7. ; Lindl. Nat. Syst. Bot., 2d edit., p. 309. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 59. 

 Synonymes. Mongorium Lam. ; Jessamine; Jasmin, .Fr. and Ger. ; Schasmin, Get: ; Gelsomine, 



Ital. ; Jazmin, Span. 

 Derivation. Linnaeus derives this name from ion, a violet, and osme, smell: hut the scent of the 



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



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



Gen. Char., $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., iv. p. 59.) Twining or 

 rambling shrubs. Leaves simple or compound, mostly evergreen. Petioles 

 articulated. Flowers white or yellow, odoriferous. Propagated readily 

 by cuttings in common garden soil, and usually grown against walls. 



fc 1. J. FRU X TICANS L. The sprig-producing, or shrubby, Jasmine. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 1. p. 9., Syst., ed. 14. ; Vahl Enum.,1. p. 33. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 63. 



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



Engravings. Bot. Mag., 13. t. 461. ; Schmidt Baum., 3. 1. 148. ; and our Jig. 1073. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, and simple, glabrous; leaflets 

 obovate or cuneiform, obtuse. Branches angular. Calycine segments subu- 

 late. Peduncles terminal, by threes. Corolla 

 yellow, with oblong obtuse segments. (Don's 

 Mill., iv. p. 63.) A shrub, a native of the south 

 of Europe, and throughout the Levant, where it 

 grows from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high, and flowers from 

 May till October. It was introduced in 1570, 

 and is frequent in British gardens, where it forms 

 a very desirable subevergreen, either for planting 

 in borders, or against walls ; flowering freely, 1073 

 and ripening abundance of fruit, which is black 

 when ripe. It sends up numerous suckers ; 

 which, when it is desired that the plant should 

 assume a gardenesque character, should all be 

 removed, leaving the branches to proceed from 

 a single stem, or from two, three, or any other 

 small and limited number of stems. On the 

 other hand, when the plant is intended to as- 

 sume a picturesque or natural habit, it should be allowed to throw up suckers, 

 unlimited by any thing but the circumstances in which it is placed with 

 reference to soil and other plants. In the last character, it is a very suit- 

 able plant for the front of a picturesque or wild-looking shrubbery. Plants 

 of this species, in the London nurseries, are 25s. a hundred ; at Bollwyller, 

 half a franc per plant; and at New York, 50 cents each. 



Variety. A semi-double flower has been observed on a plant of this species, in a garden in Suffolk, 

 but we are not aware that it has been propagated. The exi.sU-nri 1 of double-flowered varielic* 

 of J. Sdmbac and .7. officinale shows a tendency in this genus to vary into double flowen. 



