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sparsely hispid, -4 to -5 in. long, points recurved. Corolla-tube slender, 

 funnel-shaped, -75 in. long; lobes as long or slightly longer, 8 to 9, 

 recurved, oblong-ligulate, about -25 to -3 in. broad. Stamens included 

 in the corolla-tube ; filaments short, slender ; anthers oblong, mucro- 

 nate, -15 in. long, connective broad. Ovary cylindric ; style slender ; 

 stigma clavate. Fruit globose, shining, young carpels "25 in. in diam. 

 A.DC. Prod. VIII. 314 ; Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 597. 



Penang: King's Collector 1736. — Disteib. Khasia Hills {Wallich). 



This species is clearly quite a small climber, and while the Penang specimens have 

 only small leaves those from the Khasia Hills show comparatively large ones, but this 

 is not unnatural, and we believe the identification to be correct. 



9. Jasminum longipetalum, King & Gamble, n. sp. A large climb- 

 ing shrub, reaching 30 to 40 feet ; branchlets slender, terete, pale brown. 

 Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous, 3-nerved ; elliptic, acute or shortly 

 acuminate at apex, attenuate or cuneate or slightly rounded at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces; margins slightly recurved ; 2 to 6 in. long, 

 1'5 to 3 in. broad ; midrib slightly impressed above, shortly raised 

 beneath ; main-nerves 7 to 8 pairs, the basal pair opposite, at about 25° 

 with the midrib produced in an intramarginal nerve about "25 in. from 

 the margin, looped where the others, which are at about 65° with the 

 midrib, join it ; secondary nerves and reticulations very indistinct ; 

 petiole -2 to -4 in. long, twisted. Floivers white tinged with pink, 

 fascicled 3 to 6 together in the axils of the upper leaves, forming sessile 

 umbellate cymes ; bracts very small, ovate-acute, deciduous ; pedicels 

 1 to 1"5 in. long, ver}^ slender, summit enlarged in fruit. Calyx-tube 

 short; lobes 6, glabrous, linear- subulate, -1 in. long, margins inflexed. 

 Corolla-tube very slender, -75 in. long; lobes 9, linear-oblong, acute, 

 3-5-nerved, "75 to 1 in. long, much recurved in flower. Stamens within 

 the tube ; filaments short, slender ; anthers oblong, -175 in. long, 

 obtuse. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled ; style slender ; stigma flattened, 

 minutely pubescent. Fruit didymous ; carpel usually 1 only by 

 suppression, black, globose, '4 to '5 in. in diam. ; pericarp fleshy, 

 glabrous. Seeds 2, testa very thin, cotyledons plano-convex. 



Pbrak : King's Collector 2765, 6005— on rich soil at 300 to 800 feet 

 elevation, scarce. Singapore : Bidley 10937. 



A particularly handsome and well-defined species, which is well worthy of garden 

 cultivation. 



10. Jasminum smilacifolium. Griff. MS., Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. III. 600 (1882). A large glabrous climbing shrub ; branchlets pale 

 brown, terete. Leaves coriaceous, 3-nerved ; ovate, abruptly caudate- 



