Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 257 



Beng. XLVI. ii. 242, and For. Fl. II. 153 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 591 ; Blume Bijdr. 677 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 542 ; Cooke Bomb. 

 Fl. II. Ill ; Prain Beng. Plants 659. J. fragrans, Salisb. Prod. 12. 

 J. undulatum, Willd. Sp. PI. I. 36 {not of Ker). J. Zamhac, Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 2, and Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey & Wall. I. 87. /. quinqucfiorum, Heyne ; 

 Wall. Cat. 2878 ; A.DC. I.e. 302. /. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 2880, not of 

 Willd. Nyctanthes Sambac and tmdulatwn, Linn. Sp. PI. 8. Mogorium 

 Sambac, Lamk. Diet. IV. 210 ; 111. t. 6, fig. 1. M. undulatum, Lamk. 

 Diet. IV. 212. " Kudda-muUa," Rheede Hort. Mai. VI. tt. 50, 51. 

 Burm. Thes. Zeyl. t. 58, fig. 2. 



Pekak : Scortechiui 997. — Disteib. India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam. 



Much cultivated in India and in all tropical regions. The cultivated forms have 

 many-liovrered cymes and rounded corolla-lobes, and they are often found with double 

 flowers. 



2. Jasminum Geiffithii, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 593 

 (1882). A slender climbing shrub; brancblets densely and patently ful- 

 vous-villous. Leaves chartaceous ; ovate- or elliptic-oblong, bluntly acute 

 or acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate at base; fulvous-pilose on 

 both surfaces, sparsely above, more densely beneath but glabrescent 

 when old, the uppermost often whitened ; 4 to 6 in. long, 1*5 to 3*5 in. 

 broad ; midrib prominent beneath ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, at first 

 straight then arching upwards to join in a prominent looped intra- 

 marginal nerve ; secondary nerves few ; ireticulations rather indistinct ; 

 midrib and all nerves impressed above and pilose, raised and densely 

 fulvous-villous beneath, tufted in the axils ; petiole stout, "2 to -4 in. 

 long. Floivers creamy-white, in terminal, many-flowered, fulvous- 

 pilose cymes, 1 to 1-5 in. long and up to 2 in. broad ; bracts leafy, lan- 

 ceolate, about -5 to 1 in. long, few ; bracteoles many, linear, similar to 

 calyx-lobes, of various lengths. Calyx-tube slender, -1 in. long; lobes 5, 

 linear, -2 in. long. Corolla-tube slender, slightly enlarged above, "75 in. 

 long; lobes 5, spreading, -25 in, long, elliptic, apiculate ; lobes and 

 tube minutely pubescent without. Stamens included or slightly exsert ; 

 filaments broad; anthers oblong-lanceolate with a broad connective, "15 

 to "2 in. long. Ovary glabrous ; style slender ; stigma clavate. Berry 

 didymous ; carpels waxy- white, globose, "3 to "4 in. in diam., pericarp 

 crustaceous, glabrous. Seed usually one, testa fibrous; cotyledons thick, 

 plano-convex, -2 in. in diam. 



Peeak : King's Collector 10229. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3704. 

 Singapore : Bidley 8455. 



Var. cuspidata, King & Gamble. Leaves thinner than in the type, 

 oblong, abruptly and sharply cuspidate-acuminate at apex, attenuate and 



