Jasminum. | JASMINER. 155 
1, scandens proper: all parts, especially the branchlets 
and heaves, more glabrous. 
, letum (J. le@tum, Wall.) : the branchlets, cert nerves, 
whee eile the under-surface of the leaves, puberu lou | 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical and open forests all over rie from 
Arracan, dep and Martaban down to Tenasserim.—Fl. Dec.-Feb; Fr, Apr.- 
May.—s: 1.—SS.= @. 
pe —Wood light brown. 
NYCTANTHES, Juss. 
Calyx tubular, entire, or obscurely 5-6-toothed. Corolla salver- 
shaped, a tube terete; limb 5-7-lobed, sinistrorsely twisted in 
bud. Anthers 2, sessile at the throat of the corolla, Ovary 2- 
celled, cena with a solitary erect ovule in each cell; style 
filiform, with a capitate stigma. Capsule compressed-obovate, 
notched, 2-celled and opening in 2 valves. Albumen none.— 
or shrubs, with rough, simple, opposite leaves. Flowers in small 
= corymbs. 
. N. arbor tristis, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr., t. 240; Brand. 
Bis. FL 314 —Heeit-bee-loo—A rel shrub, often growing out 
into a small tree of 15 to 20 ft. in height, all parts more or. less 
roughish puberulous, the branchlets 4-cornered; leaves ovate to 
oblong-ovate, rounded to acute at. the 3- or 5-nerved base, on a 
1-3 lin. long scabrous petiole, 2-4 in. long, acuminate, entire or 
often produced into several acute lobes, chartaceous, very scabrous 
above, less so beneath ; flowers rather small, very fragrant, opening 
during night, sessile, each supported by 2 broadly ovate racts 
apes concealing the calyx, by threes in peduncled small corymbs 
n arranged into a brachiate compound one at the end of the 
biahlote, corolla white, with an orange tube; capsule rigidly 
cori riaceous, | obovate, compressed, truncate or notched with a mucro, 
strongly longitudinally-veined, ‘about } an in. long, glabrous. 
Has.—Rare in the low forests of Pegu above Rangoon; also Ava; Tenas- 
serim.—Fl, Fr. €.S.—].—S8.=Ca8. Lat. ; 
SCHREBERA, Roxb. 
Calyx tubular-bell-shaped, ey shortly 5-8-toothed, sometimes 
almost 2-lipped, with the lobes 2- and 3-lobed. Corolla salver- 
saped, naked or pilose at the throat, the limb 6-8-cleft, twisted 
in bud. Stamens 2, inserted in the tube or at the throat of the 
Corolla ; filaments short ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 2-celled, with 4 
pendulous ovules in each cell; style filiform with a thick shortly 
2-lobed or 2-cleft stigma. Capsule woody or coriaceous, opening 
