152 JASMINE. [ Jasminum. 
minate, entire, coriaceous, glabrous, the nerves thin and inconspi- 
cuous, without glands in the axils ; flowers white, on 4 in. long 
strong pedicels, forming a peduncled, glabrous, naked, lax raceme in 
the axils of the leaves; bractlets linear-subulate, small ; calyx 
glabrous, the teeth very short, acute ; corolla-tube about 4-2 in. 
long, the limb nearly as long, usually 5-lobed, the lobes linear- 
oblong, blunt ; berry-lobes ovoid, very diverging. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the damp hill forests of the Martaban hills, at 
5,000 to 7,000 ft. elevation.— Fl. Fr. March.—s.—SS.—Metam. 
6. J. laurifolium, Roxb.—An evergreen scandent shrub, up to 
8 ft. high, with terete branchlets, all parts quite glabrous ; leaves 
linear to linear-lanceolate, rounded or acute at the base, on a 2 lin 
long petiole jointed at the middle, 2-5 in. long, bristly acuminate, 
entire, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, the lateral nerves thin an 
_ uniting from the base into a more or less distinct intramarginal 
nerve and without any net-veination between them ; flowers mid- 
dling-sized, white, often reddish outside, on about an inch long, 
slender, glabrous pedicels, arising by 2-5 at the end of the branchlets 
or from the axils of the upper leaves, or forming 3-flowered pedun- 
cled racemes ; calyx glabrous, the tube about a line long, 6-12- 
lobed, the lobes long or short, linear-subulate ; corolla-tube about # 
in. long, the limb about as long, 9-12-lobed, the lobes linear-lanceo- 
late, acuminate ; berry-lobes 2 or 1, ovoid-oblong, about 4 in. long, 
sappy, glossy, blackish. 
ar. 1, laurifolium proper: calyx-lobes much longer than the 
calyx-tube, up to 4 lin. long. 
Var. 2, brachylobum : calyx-lobes as long or a little longet 
than the calyx-tube, more or less recurved. 
Has.—Var. 2 : frequent in the tropical forests from Martaban down to 
Tenasserim.—Fl. Feb.-Apr. ; Fr. Stat Aa Bg etam. 
7. J. anastomosans, Wall.—An evergreen scandent shrub, 3-9 
ft. high, with terete branchlets, all parts glabrous ; leaves ovate fo 
ovate-oblong, on a 2-3 lin. long petiole jointed at the middle, 
rounded or obtuse at the base, 1-3 in. long, acuminate, entire, char- 
taceous, glabrous, 3-nerved from the base, the lateral nerves 
anastomosing, veined and obsoletely and laxly net-veined betweens — 
flowers white, on very short bracteoled hardly a line long : 
solitary or by pairs from the axils of the leaves or forming VOY — 
short 3- or 4-flowered axillary clusters ; calyx glabrous, 6-cleft, the : 
lobes linear-subulate, up to 4 lin. long ; corolla-tube about $1 
ene, the limb usually 7-cleft, the linear lobes almost as long 8 the a 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of the Pegt 
a and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. March-Apr.—s.—88.—=Meta» : 
