Pt 
Avery beautiful scandent shrub, with lanceolate, shining leaves. Flowers 
terminal, tinged with red.—Parell garden; intd. from the Mauritius by the 
Hon’ble Capt. Cavendish. 
The Cape of Good Hope, is said te be its native country. 
846. 1. ELoneatum. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 90. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 59. 
Newalee.—A climbing shrab; flowers pure white, fragrant, calyx small, 
divisions subulate, hairy.—In Deccan gardens. Dr. Lush.) 
i Sect. 2. Leaves Ternate, 
847. I. Auricutarum.. Rox, Flora. 1. p. 98. Don's. syst. 4. p. 62. Bot. 
Reg. ¢. 264. Asiat. Res. 4. p. 246. 
Jai.—A shrub; inferior leaves ternate, superior simple; flowers small, 
white.—In gardens, scarce. 
848. I. Oporarissimum, Don’s. syst. 4. p. 63. Bot. Mag. t. 285. 
Yeliow Jasmine;—an elegant looking shrub, with small, shining, ternate and 
pinnate leaves. Flowers terminal, yellow, and like most of the family sweet 
scented; but by no means so much so,as to merit the trivial name of 
odoratissimum. In gardensand flower pots about Bungalows. 
It is a native of Madeira and probably found its way here from the Cape 
of Good Hope. i 
Sect. 3. Leaves pinnate. 
849. IT. OrrictnaLe. Don’s. syst. 4.p. 63. Bot. Mag. t. 31. Lam. IIL. t. Coifeale 
Common Jasmine; said to be a native of the south of Europe. In gardens. 
Perhaps it ought to be blended with the next species, which it very much 
resembies. 
Cowper has given ita place in his shrubbery. 
“and luxuriant above all 
The jasmine, throwing wide her elegant sweets, 
The deep dark green of whose unyarnish’d leaf 
Makes more conspicuous, and illumines more, 
The bright profusion of her scatter’d stars.” 
The Task. 
850. I. GranpirLorum. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 52. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 63. Rheed, 
Mal.6. t.52. Bot. Reg. t.91. 3 
Chumbelly, Jatee Jai.—Catalonian, or Spanish Jasmine. In gardens every 
where. The flowers of this species are peculiarly sweet-scented, and are com- 
monly used in making Durbar and Wedding garlands. 
There is a plant running over a tree about midway between Chowke 
and the bottom of the Ghaut on the Poona road, at a distance from any village 
but probably ithas been placed there. : 
422, NYCTANTHES. i. Diandria Monogynia. 
Nyx—night—anthos—a flower; in allusion to the period at which the flow- 
ers expand; hence the trivial name arbor tristis. Lam, t. 6. Gaert. t. 5). 
—-—. 851. N. Arsor-tTristis. Rox. Flora. 1. p. 86. Don’s. syst. 4. p. 64, Rheed. 
\ 
Mal. 1. ¢. 21, Linn. Trans. 13. p, 484. Gaert. Fruct, 2. ¢, 128. Sephalica. 
Asiat. Res. 4. p. 244. Bot. Reg. ¢. 399. 
Parjatie Harsingahur, i, e. yellaw singahar. 
Har, Singahar, Shiooli,—The Arabian Jasmine—A very Common orna- 
mental shrub in gardens, and about villages:—branches 4 square; leaves sca- 
brous, deciduous in the hot season; used for polishing wood. Flowers white, 
tube orange, very fragrant; appear more or less all the year, but most pro- 
fusely in the cold season. They are used for dyeing, ; 
In Guzerat it attains the size of a small tree; probably introduced, as it 
has not been found in a wild state. (Mr. Vaupell.) 
