CHAP. V. OENAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, ETC. 517 



to prune in closely after flowering, and keep as small and com- 

 pact as possible. Many are native of the hills of India, though 

 thriving well in the'plains. All are propagated easily by cuttings 

 or layers during the Bains. 



1. J. angustifolium. A small shrub with long twig-like stems, 

 along which grow pairs of small oval, pointed, glossy leaves, 

 about an inch in length ; bears in the Hot months, in continued 

 profusion, small white, star-like, exquisitely fragrant flowers. 

 A delightful plant for perfuming the verandah during the time 

 it is in bloom. Dr. Koxburgh says of it, " It is one of the most 

 beautiful species of Jasmine I know. It is constantly covered 

 with leaves, and their bright, shining, deep-green colour renders 

 it always beautiful, and particularly well adapted for screening 

 windows, covering arbours, &c." 



2. J. approximation. An unattractive shrub but for the curious 

 spider-like flowers it bears in March, with narrow, white, thread- 

 like lobes, more than an inch long, quite scentless. 



3. J. arboreseens. A tree about ten or twelve feet high, with 

 ovate, cordate, acuminate leaves ; very showy in the Cold and 

 beginning of the Hot season, when loaded with its large corymbi- 

 ferous panicles of large white fragrant flowers. 



4. J. auriculatum Jooee. A small twining shrub, having 

 large heart-shaped leaves, with a pair of minute leaflets on their 

 footstalks ; bears in April numerous middle-sized, white, star- 

 like, very fragrant flowers. 



5. J. Azoricum. A large bushy shrub, with soft downy stems 

 and heart-shaped leaves ; remarkably handsome in the month 

 of February, when it bears in great profusion its large crowded 

 heads of scentless flowers, the petals white inside and delicately 

 tinged with red on the outside. 



6. J. candidum. A shrub with narrow lanceolate leaves two or 

 three inches long ; bears in the Cold season large white, five- 

 lobed, periwinkle-like flowers, without scent. 



7. J. caudatum. A not very attractive shrub ; bears in the 

 Cold season middling-sized white flowers, with tubes an inch 

 and a half long. 



8. J chrysanthemum. Dr. Koxburgh describes this as a stout 

 shrub, from eight to twelve feet high, with stems as thick as a 

 man's leg, and foliage of dark-green unequally pinnate leaves ; 

 bears corymbs of ten to twenty-flowered large, bright-yellow, 



