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delightfully fragrant flowers ; he further observes it is a native 

 of Nepaul, and that " in the Botanic G-arden it grows freely 

 from cuttings, and becomes a stout, erect, ramous shrub, even a 

 small tree, without the smallest tendency to lean or twine. 

 Flowers more or less the whole year, but, like the other species, 

 the proper season is April and May, at which time it is the most 

 desirable Jasmine I have yet seen." I fancy this must have 

 wholly disappeared from the Calcutta gardens, for I have never 

 met with it. 



9. J. coarctatum. This Dr. Koxburgh describes as a very 

 ramous shrub, with no tendency to climb, and says, " it may be 

 readily known, without any other mark, by the great number of 

 flowers which form the little dense corymbs." 



10. J. fruticans. A common and very beautiful small, twig- 

 stemmed, twining shrub, with deep bright-green foliage of ter- 

 nate leaves ; leaflets oval, side ones half an inch, and terminal 

 one three-quarters of an inch long ; bears at nearly all seasons 

 five-lobed, bright-yellow, scentless flowers. 



11. J. grandiflorum CATALONIAN or SPANISH JASMINE Jatee 

 Chunibelee Kuth-bela Kund. A very pretty shrub with 

 graceful pinnate foliage, the leaflets less than an inch long ; in 

 blossom during the Hot and Rain seasons, with middling-sized, 

 white, fragrant flowers ; resembles more than any other species 

 in leaf, flower, and fragrance the common Jasmine of the 

 English gardens. The flowers are much used for perfume in 

 this country, retaining their odour when dried. When in a 

 thriving condition a rather troublesome plant to keep in order, 

 sprawling over a large extent of space, and emitting roots from 

 its stems whenever they touch the ground. It may be trained 

 upon a single stem, which will eventually become as thick as a 

 man's wrist, supporting, at the height of two or three feet, a large 

 bushy head. But thus trained it is very apt to be blown down 

 by strong winds. 



12. J. heterophyllum. Of this Dr. Wallich observes, " this 

 ornamental Jasmine is probably the largest of the genus, 

 growing, as I am informed, to a considerable tree." Bears very 

 numerous yellow, delightfully fragrant flowers, but not in the 

 Calcutta Gardens, where, Dr. Voigt states, it has been more than 

 thirty years without flowering. 



13. J. laurifolium. A twining shrub of handsome, verdant, 



