132 LOG AN i ACE AE 



scars; solitary sessile ovoid buds with about 2 pairs of exposed 

 scales; simple entire very short-stalked moderately small 

 leaves; perfect small white shortly salver-shaped gamopetalous 

 flowers in terminal panicles; and berry-like usually black fruit. 



1. Leaves glabrate: fruit glossy, rather large (8 mm.), 



in large clusters. 2. 



Leaves often pubescent beneath, at least on the mid- 

 rib: fruit dull, rather small (5 mm.), in small 

 clusters surpassed by the shoots. 3. 



2. Twigs glabrous: fruit round: leaves subelliptic. L.ovalifolium. 

 Twigs puberulent: fruit ovoid: leaves oblong. L. vulgare. 



3. Habit erect: calyx glabrate. 4. 



Habit spreading: calyx usually puberulent. 5. 



4. Leaves acute at both ends. L. acuminatuni. 

 Leaves rather blunt. L. amurense. 



5. Tall, with curving branches. L. Ibota. 

 Dwarf, with horizontal branches. L. Ibota Regelianum. 



JASMINUM. Jessamine. 



Shrubs, sometimes scrambling, with white wood with small 

 ducts crowded in spring but sparser and much smaller in sum- 

 mer, and fine medullary rays 1 ; slender mostly angled twigs; 

 round often chambered pith ; opposite or alternate but 4-ranked 

 somewhat raised small crescent-shaped leaf-scars with a single 

 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; round or ovoid or spin- 

 dle-shaped sessile buds; odd-pinnate or by reduction appar- 

 ently simple petioled leaves; fragrant salver-shaped gamopet- 

 alous perfect flowers in axillary clusters; and 2-seeded berries. 



1. Leaves evidently compound. 2. 



Leaves of 1 leaflet. J. pubescens. 



2. Leaves opposite. 3. 



Leaves alternate. J. humile. 



3. Flowers white. 4. 



Flowers yellow: leaves deciduous. J. nudiflorum. 



4. Bushy. j. grandiflorum. 

 Scrambling. J. officinale. 



Family LOGANIACEAE. Strychnine Family. 

 A moderate chiefly tropical family, mainly notable as af- 



