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Jasminecz Jasminum. 



plant is deservedly a great favourite, though not so universally 

 planted as it should be. Branches angular, slender, and flex- 

 ible, deep green. Leaves opposite, deciduous, pinnate ; leaflets 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers white, very fragrant, produced 

 from June till September. A native of Northern India and 

 China, and now naturalised in the South of Europe. There are 

 variegated and double-flowered varieties, but none superior to 

 the common one. 



2. /. fruticans. An evergreen more erect-growing species 

 with alternate trifoliolate or unifoliolate dark green shining 

 leaves and yellow flowers appearing in July or August. South 

 of Europe. 



3. /. humile. Another South European species near the 

 last, but of smaller stature and humbler growth. Leaflets three 

 or more, ovate-oblong, acute. Flowers yellow, in Summer. 



4. /. nudiflorum (fig. 163). This deciduous species is 



Fig. 103. Jasminum nudiflorum. (\ nat. size.) 



remarkable for its numerous solitary opposite yellow flowers, 

 which are produced throughout the length of the flexible green 



