Jasminum.) JASMINE®. 153 
8. J. sambac, Ait.; Brand. For. Fl. 311.—Sa-pai or ma-lee.— 
An evergreen small shrub, erect, or the terete branches somewhat 
scandent, the young shoots shortly pubescent ; leaves oblong to 
ovate, on a curved, jointed petiole 1-2 lin. long, more or less 
rounded or almost cordate at the base, 2-3 in. long, bluntish or 
shortly apiculate with a mucro, entire, thin-chartaceous, while 
oung herbaceous with a tuft of hairs in the axils of the nerves, 
penninerved ; flowers middling-sized, fragrant, white, often reddish 
outside, on 1-2 lin. long slightly pubescent pedicels, forming a 
terminal, poor, short, slightly puberulous raceme ; bracts and bractlets 
subulate-filiform, often deciduous ; calyx puberulous or glabrous or 
nearly so, about 8-cleft, the lobes puberulous, subulate, somewhat 
longer than the calyx-tube ; corolla-limb about an inch in diameter, 
with as many oblong to elliptical, acute or blunt lobes as there are 
calyx-lobes, the tube about as long as the calyx-lobes ; berry-lobes 
2 or 1, globular-ovoid, shorter than the calyx-lobes, black, sappy. 
Haxs.—Apparently not wild in Burma, but frequently cultivated by natives 
and often met with in neglected lands and deserted toungyas.—Fl. March-Apr. 
Xx Bracts conspicuous, leafy, shorter or longer than the calya. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah.—Fl. Apr.—s.—S8.—SiS. 
10. J. coarctatum, Roxb.—-An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, 
the young terete branches sparingly pubescent; leaves oblong to 
oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute at the base, on a 3-4 lin. long 
puberulous petiole jointed at the middle, 5-6 in. long, shortly 
acuminate, entire, thin-chartaceous, glossy on both sides, with a 
of hairs in the nerve-axils beneath, penninerved ; flowers white, 
on very short puberulous pedicels or almost sessile, forming a longer 
or shorter peduncled bracted puberulous corymb at the end of the 
branches and in the axils of the upper leaves ; bracts leafy, ovate- 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly puberulous, white ; 
