PLATE CXXVII. 



JASMINUM GRACILE. 



Slender -ft emed Jafmine. 



CLASS II. ORDER I. 



DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Five Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum, tubula- 



tum, oblongum; ore quinquedentato, erec- 



to; perfiftens. 

 Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubus 



cylindraceus, longus; limbus quinquepar- 



titus, planus. 

 Stamina. Filamenta duo, brevia. Antherse 



parvae, intra tubum corollas. 

 Pistillum. Germen fubrotundum. Stylus 



filiformis, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma 



biridum. 

 Pekicarpium. Bacca ovalis, glabra, bilocula- 



ris feu bicapfularis. 



Semina duo, magna, ovato-oblonga, arillata, 

 hinc convexa, inde plana. 

 Obs. Figura floris acuminata et obtufa variat. 

 Bacca in aliis fimplex, in aliis dicocca. 



SPECIFIC 



Jafminum petiolis foliorum geniculars; foliis 

 ovatis, oppofitis, nitidis, fimplicibus; flori- 

 bus umbellatis ; laciniis corollse obtufis, 

 undulatis. 



CHARACTER. 



Empalement. Cup one-leaved, tubular, ob- 

 long; five-toothed at the mouth, and up- 

 right; remaining. 



Blossom, one petal, falver-fhaped ; tube cylin- 

 drical, long; border five divifions, flat. 



Chives. Threads two, fliort. Tips fmall, with- 

 in the tube of the bloflbm. 



Pointal. Seed-bud roundiih. Shaft thread-* 

 fhaped, the length of the chives. Summit 

 two-cleft. 



Seed-vessel. Berry oval, fmooth, two-celled 

 or two-capfuled. 



Seeds two, large, oblong egg-fhaped, each in 

 its proper feed-coat, convex on one fide, 

 and flat on the other. 

 Obs. The flower varies in its character of ta- 

 pering to a point, or in being blunt-ended. 

 In fome the berry is fimple, in others dou- 

 ble-feeded. 

 CHARACTER. 



Jafmine with the foot-flalks of the leaves jointed ; 

 egg-fhaped leaves, growing oppofite, fhin- 

 ing and fimple; flowers grow in umbels; 

 the fegments of the blolTom are blunt and 

 waved. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Cup. 



2. A Bloflbm fpread open, to expofe the fituation of the Chivei. 



3. The Shaft and Summit. » 



4. A ripe Berry. 



5. The fame cut tranfverfely, to fhew the cells and feeds. 



The plant here figured, we confider as a diftincl fpecies from the J. fimplicifolium of Forfter, which 

 he defcribes as a native of the Friendly Ifles, in the South Seas; and likewife from the J. oblongum of 

 Burman, which is given (but with a query) as a fynonim to the J. fimplicifolium of the former Au- 

 thor by Willdenow, in his Sp. Plant, p. 38, Part I. In the year 1792, the feeds of this plant were 

 received by MeflVs. Lee and Kennedy, Hammerfmith, with the Bignonia pandorana, and many others, 

 communicated by Colonel Paterfon, then commanding a detachment flationed for a time on Norfolk 

 Ifland, where it is native. To the green-houfe it is a confiderable acquifition, either for a climber, or 

 otherwife, as it is rarely without bloflbms from July, till the end of November; being rather more 

 tender than many of its congeners, which are in general deflined to that ftation; it fhould be placed 

 as nigh the flue, in as dry and airy a part of it as poflible. A light, fandy peat foil, without mixture, 

 is the moft congenial to its growth ; and it is increafed by cuttings, made in the month of March, put, 

 from 12 to 20, according to the fize of the pot, under a fmall bell-glafs, in the before-named earth, 

 and plunged either in the bark-bed of the hot-houfe, or in the heat of a common hotbed. 





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