Jasminum.] LXXVlIl. OLEACS^. 9^9 



rarely alternate, either pinnate with 3 (or more in species not Australian) leaflets 

 or apparently simple, being reduced to 1 leaflet, the petiole being then articulate. 

 Flowers white or yellow, in axillary or terminal trichotomous panicles or rarely 

 almost solitary. Bracts very small in all the Australian species. 



A considerable genus, dispersed over the warmer regions of the Old World, with one or two 

 S. American species. 



Leaves all or almost all 3foliolate. Calyx truncate or very shortly and 

 obtusely toothed. 



Leaflets mostly ovate, 2 to 3in. Panicle usually broad 1. J, didymum. 



Leaflets ovate or oblong, J to l^in. Panicles narrowed or reduced to 



simple racemes 2. J. racemosum. 



Leaflets mostly linear or lanceolate. Panicles short 3. J. lineare. 



Leaves simple (unifoliolate), the petiole articulate below the middle. 

 Leaves mostly ovate, penniveined. 



Calyx-teeth much shorter than the tube or obsolete i. J. simplicifolium. 



Calyx-teeth subulate, much longer than the tube 5. J. mmulum. 



Leaves mostly linear, penniveined. Calyx-teeth subulate, longer than 



the tube &. J. suavissimum. 



Leaves 3-foliolate. Leaflets nearly orbicular, 4 to 6 lines diameter. 

 Flowers white, solitary in each axil T.J. singuliflorum. 



1. J. didymum (twin-seeded), Forst. Prod. 8 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 294. 

 A tall woody climber, usually glabrous or the inflorescence minutely pubescent, 

 but sometimes the foliage and young branches pubescent or villous. Leaves 

 3-foliolate, with rather long petioles and petiolules or very rarely a few of the 

 lower leaves 1-foliolate ; leaflets usually orbicular or broadly ovate and obtuse, 

 but sometimes ovate and acuminate or ovate-lanceolate and acute, mostly 2 to 

 Sin. long, penniveined and more or less distinctly 3 or 5-nerved at the base. 

 Flowers small for the genus and often numerous, in loose trichotomous cymes or 

 panicles, axillary or terminating short axillary brahchlets, and often exeeeding 

 the leaves. Pedicels short. Calyx under 1 line long, truncate or very shortly 

 toothed. Corolla-tube 3 to 4 lines long ; lobes 5 or 6 or rarely 4, less than half 

 as long as the tube. Berry usually globular and 1-seeded, about 5 lines diameter, 

 rarely didymous and 2-seeded. Seed globular, the inner integument formed of 

 an undulated network. — DC. Prod. viii. 311 ; J. divaricatuin, Br. Prod. 521 ; DC. 

 Prod. viii. 311 ; Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 27; J. parvijiorum, Dene. Herb. 

 Tim. 77 ; DC. Prod. viii. 310. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne; Keppel Bay, iJ. Browre ; Eodd's 

 Bay, A. Gminingham ; Bockhampton, O'Shanesy ; Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller. 



The species is also in the S. Pacific and Society Islands. 



Var. pubescens. Branched and foliage pubescent or villous with spreading hairs J. Dallachii, 



F. V. M. Fragm. iv. 150. — Seaview Range, Eookingham Bay, Dallachy. Among the Taitian 

 specimens are some almost if not quite as villous as Dallachy's ; but in both countries the 

 more frequent state appears to be quite or very nearly glabrous.— Bcnt/t. 



2. J. racemosum (flowers in racemes), F. r. M. Fragm. i. 19 ; Bcnth. Fl 

 Austr. iv. 295. A slender glabrous shrub, either erect and bushy or the branches 

 elongated and somewhat twining. Leaves opposite or alternate, 3-foliolate with 

 short petiolules ; leaflets from broadly ovate to narrow-oblong or the lateral ones 

 orbicular, all very obtuse, finely and often obscurely penniveined, shining above, 

 the terminal one often above lin. long, the lateral ones shorter or rarely all 

 similar. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal panicles, sometimes trichotomous, 

 sometimes more simple and almost reduced to slender racemes. Calyx truncate, 

 or with very short teeth. Corolla-tube nearly 3 lines long; lobes 5 to 8, at 

 least half as long as the tube. Berry usually globular and 1-seeded, rarely 

 didymous. 



Hab.: Thirsty Sound, M. Brown: Araucaria Ranges, sources of the Brisbane, F. v. Mueller ; 

 Broadsound, SuttorEiver, Nerkool Creek, &c.,.Boi(;mare; Eockhampton, Dallachy and others; 

 Port Denison, Fitzalan. , 



Very near /. didymum (J. divaricatum, Br., in which Brown's specimens were included in his 

 herbarium) on the one hand, and, on the other hand, sometimes scarcely to be distinguished 

 from the broad-leaved specimens of J. lineare. — Benth 



