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GENUS li. JASMIXUM. 

 niandria jndnpg^ynia. Sex-. Sy>t •' 



Deriv. According to Linnaeus, from Ion, a violet, and Osmi; 

 Spiefl, but tnoreprobably from the Arabic name Ysmyn. 



Gen. Char. Erect or scatident shrubs : lestves opposite, rarely 

 aHefnate, all ppmpound, or Qccasiorially the petiole jointed in the 

 middle and having one leafleti or sometimes 3-7 leaflets, and then 

 the leaves are trifoliolate or ilnequaily pinnate : panicles few or 

 tnany-floTrered : corolla yellow or white, sometimes reddish exter- 

 t^ally : calyx campanulate, 5— 8-lobed, teet,h Sometimes subulate, 

 sometimes short : corolla salver-shaped : tube terete^ limb flat, .5- 

 iB-parted, lobes oblique, twisted in aestivation : stamens adnate to 

 the tube of the corolla^ included : ovary 2-celled, 1— 2-ovuled : 

 tovules erect, ascending, lateral, or sometimes pendulous : style sim- 

 ple, 2-lobed at the apex : berry didymous : cells i-(rarely 2)-seed- 

 ed : seed erect, exalbuminous. 



(1) J. ERECtlFI.ORtJM. (DeC.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. yill. p. 308. 



Engrav. V^^ight's Icort. t. 1251. — Spicil. 11. t. 150. 



Spec. Chajl. Scandent : leaves ovate-lanceolate, subcordaiej 

 long-acuminate : peduncles on the ends of the branches, ternate; 

 with from ^-7 er,ec^, con^ei^sed flower? on the apex : bracts line^r- 

 SubuiatBi soijneivhat longer than the pedicels : Calycine lobes 6^ 

 Hnear-subylate : tube of the corolla 3 times longer thap the calyx,! 

 lobes 6-7, oblong, ^cuininate, half tl^e length of the tube : flowers 

 white,, fragrant. 



^eilgherries, flowering in the hdt season. 



(2) J. p-EVOLUTUM. (Sims.) 

 Far. PENiNSULARE. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dee. prod. VIII. p. 312.— Don's prod. p. 106. 



' Syn. J. Chrysanthemum, J?ox6. fior. Ind. I. p. 98. — J. Bighoni* 

 aceum, Wall. 



/"jiffrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1258.— ^picil. II. t. 151.— :pot. R?g. 

 t. \^. 



Spec. Char. Erect, not scandent : leaves alternate, pinnatetl : 

 bcan<^es angled: leaflets 8j 5, 7, 11-obovate, oblong, narrowed at 

 the basCj subacuite at the apex : panicles terminal, opposite the 

 leaves, corymbose : calyx acute and acutely denticulate : flowers 

 few, yellow, fragrant. 



Mountains of Northern India. Neilghenies, flicwering all the 

 year. 



