154 JASMINE. [ Jasminum. 
calyx more or less pubescent, usually 8-lobed, the lobes linear-subu- 
late, somewhat longer than the tube ; corolla-tube slender, nearly 
an inch long, the limb 8-lobed, the lobes linear-oblong, about 4 lin, 
long. 
Has.=Frequent in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes of the 
Pegu Yomah and the Martaban hills east of Tounghoo;. also Chittagong —Fl. 
Apr.-May.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
ll. J. hirsutum, Willd.; Brand. For. Fl. 312.—An evergreen 
scandent shrub, the terete branchlets densely tawny-pubescent; 
leaves ovate to cordate-ovate, on a 2-3 lin. long tawny-pubescent 
petiole jointed at the base, rounded or cordate at the base, 1-24 in. 
long, shortly acuminate to blunt with a mucro, entire, chartaceous, 
especially while young pubescent or puberulous beneath, often 
turning more or less glabrescent except on the nerves beneath ; 
flowers white, middling-sized, on short up to a line long pubescent 
pedicels, forming almost sessile or shortly peduncled, tawny-pubes- 
cent, leafy-bracted, abbreviate racemes at the end of the branchlets 
or on young axillary shoots; bracts leafy, lanceolate, shorter than 
the. calyx 3 calyx pubescent, 6-9-cleft, the lobes subulate, pubescent, 
4-5 lin. long; corolla-tube longer or nearly twice as long as the 
calyx-lobes, the limb of the length of the tube, 6-9-lobed, the lobes 
hnear-oblong, acuminate. 
Hazs.—Ava; Pegu.—Fl. Jan, 
12. J. scandens, Vhl.—TZau-sa-pai.—An evergreen, large, scan- 
dent shrub ascending up to 40 and 50 ft. high with cylindrical 
trunk as thick as a man’s arm, very variable in its indumentum, 
the terete branchlets almost glabrous to densely tawny-pubescent ; 
bark about a line thick, rather even, but rough, longitudinally 
corky-cracked ; cut dry, pale-coloured ; leaves from ovate-lance0- 
Jate to lanceolate and ovate, on a 3 to 4 lin. long pubescent or 
glabrous petiole jointed below the middle, more or less rounded or 
almost cordate at the base, 2-3 in. long, acuminate, entire, charta- 
ceous, more or less glabrous or slightly puberulous or pubescent 
on the nerves, penninerved; flowers white, on thick puberulous 
pedicels less than a line long, forming short-peduncled pubescent OF 
puberulous usually 3-flowered corymbs in the axils of the leavesy 
or the corymbs augmented by two lateral 1- or 2-flowered ie 
or collected in a spurious panicle at the end of the branchletss 
lobes oblong to linear, rather blunt or acute ; berry-lobes 2 : 
