Jasminum. | OLEACEZ. 657 
tFruit a capsule; erect trees :—[p. 656] 
Leaves simple ; capsule compressed ; seeds erect; radicle inferior 
yctanthes. 
Leaves compound; capsule obovoid; seeds pendulous; radicle 
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*Corolla-lobes valvate in bud, never more than 4 in number; seeds 
usually albuminous ; (in Olea the corolla may be absent; in our species 
of Linociera the albumen is absent) ; leaves simple :—[p. 656] 
Erect shrubs or trees ; Ro with feathered veins ; radicle superior :-— 
Flowers in axillary pan 
se rather long, cuss free, or more or less oe united in 
snociera. 
Petals shortly united in a tube or 0 Olea. 
Flowers in terminal pani Ligustrum. 
Scandent shrubs ; leaves set 3-nerved veins; radicle inferior 
opyrum. 
531. Jasminum Linn. 
Erect or scandent shrubs; leaves opposite or alternate, simple, 
3-foliolate or odd- -pinnate ; petiole usually articulate. Flowers in 
2- or 3-chotomous or simple cymes, pene flowers solitary ; bracts 
linear and small, or ovate sometimes petaloid. Sepals connate in 
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cell; style oe ; stigmas 2, linear, short or long, free or sub- 
connate. Fruit a didymou assls or from suppression of one 
carpel globose, ellipsoid, or a ongate. Seeds in each ecarpel 1, 
rarely 2, erect; albumen 0; Siiledons plano-convex; radicle 
inferior. 
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*Erect shrubs or ine trees ; leaves simple, distinctly petioled ; petioles 
half an inch long or longer; cymes many-flowered, lax; ripe carpels 
= free ipo branchlets hairy ; calyx pubescent :—([p. 658] 
Leaves subcor ae e, acute, at length glabrous; calyx-teeth 
ihe fanart arborescens 
Leaves cuneate, sical often obtuse, persistently softly hairy 
on both sides ; calyx-teeth minute, narrowly 
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