Jasmmitm.] xcii. OLEACEJ!. (C. B, Clarke.) 603 



42. J, officinale, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. viii. 313 ; glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves opposite pinnate, leaflets rhomboid oblong acute, calyx-teeth linear long, 

 coroUa white tube | in. Bot. Mag. t. 31 ; Brand. For. Fl. 313; Bmss. Fl. 

 Orient, xv. 48. 



ELiSHMiE ; alt. 3-9000 ft,, frequent. — Disteib. Cabul, Persia (often cultivated in 

 India, China, Europe, &c.). 



Branches very long, weak, requiring support, hardly scandent. Cymes terminal, 

 1-10-flowered, often leafy ; bracts ^ in., linear; pedicels 0-f in. Calyx-teeth j-| in., 

 sometimes as long as the corolla-tube, sometimes (in the same plant) not half so long. 

 Ccfrolla-hbes ^ by J in." Carpels ^ by | in., ellipsoid. 



43. J, ^randifiorunx, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. viii. 313 ; glabrous or nearly 

 so, leaves opposite pinnate, leaflets rhomboid-oblong, calyx-teeth linear long, 

 coroUa white tube | in. Boxh. Sort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey S/- Wall. 

 i. 98 ; Bot. Beg. t. 91 ; Wall. Cat. 2885 ; Wight Ic. t. 1257 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 313 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 160, and in Journ. As. Soe. 1877, pt. ii. 242. J. aureum, 

 Don Prodr. 106; DC. I. c. 314 ?.—Bheede Sort. Mai. vi. t. 52. 



Sdbteopical North-wbst Himalaya, alt. 2-5000 ft. ; frequent, wild (fide Brandts ; 

 elsewhere in India often cultivated). 



Branches subpendent, angular, hardly requiring support. Calyx-teeth about i in., 

 rarely half as long as the corolla-tube_. Corolla-lobes attaining ^ in.— Otherwise 

 hardly distinguishable from J, officinale. ' 



EXCLUDED SPECIES (not British Indian). 



J. EXTENSUM, Wall. Cat. 2862; DC. Prodr. viii. 308; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 150.— 

 Birma. 



J. LiGTTSTEiFOLiuM, Wall. ms. ; Bojer Hort. May/rit. 204, DC. Prodr. viii. 305. — 

 Birma, beyond the British frontier. 



J. TtTBEFLORiTM, Boxb. Cat. PI. (1813), Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ Wall. i. 96.— This is 

 supposed to be the origin of J. solenauthtjm, DC. Prodr. viii. 306, founded on a, 

 specimen cultivated in the Mauritius. Malay Islds. 



J. OBLONGUM, Burm. Fl. Ind, 6, t. 3, fig. 2 ; DC. Prodr. viii. 312. — Java. 



2. NVCTAITTKES, Linn, inpart. 



A small tree. Leaves opposite, ovate. Flowers in small, sessile, braoteate 

 heads disposed in terminal trichotomous cymes. Calyx ovoid-cylindric, 

 subtruncate, finally split or deciduous. Corolla salvershaped ; tube cylindric, 

 yellow ; lobes 4^-8, imbricated in bud, patent, white. Anthers 2, subsessile near 

 the top of the corolla-tube. Ovary 2-ceUed : style cylindric, very shortly bifid ; 

 ovule 1 in each cell, erect, basal. Capsule orbicular, compressed parallel to 

 the partition, ripe separating into 2 subdiscoid carpels. Seed erect, orbicular, 

 flattened, testa thin, albumen ; cotyledons flat, radicle inferior. 



N. Arbor-tristis, Linn. ; Roxh. Sort. Beng. 3, and Fl. Ind. ed. Carey ^ 

 WaU. i. 85; Wall. Cat. 2846; Bot. Reg. t. 399; Lamh. lU. t. 6; DC. Prodii: 

 viii. 314; Bat. Mag. t. 4900; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 240; Ficfder in Mart. Bras. 

 vi. pt. i. 317, t. 84, fig. 3 ; Brand. For. Fl. 314 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 166, and in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 240. Parilium Arbor-tristis, Gaertn. Fruct. i. 234, t. 

 51. Scabrita scabra, lAnn. ; Vahl Symh. ii. 28 ; Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 265, t. 138. 

 S. triflora. Limn. Mant. i. 37. — Rheede Sort. Mai. i. t. 21 Sephalica, Jones in 

 As. Research, iv. 244. 



Centbal India, alt. 1-3000 ft., common, to Bandelkund and Burdwan ; reappear- 

 ing in the Oudh and North-west Terai (cultivated throughout India, and in both 

 hemispheres). 



