Jasminum.] LXXVllI. OLEACEiSl. 97I 



of 3 to 5 or solitary in the upper axils and then on long peduncles. Calyx- 

 teeth subulate ; longer than the tube. Corolla-tube 8 to 4 lines long ; lobes 5 

 to 7, very acute, and usually as long as the tube. Berry small, sometimes 

 didymous.— F. v. M. Fragm. i. 183; J. dianthifoliwn, Vis. PI. Hort. Patav. 

 1858, 7. 



Hab.: Burnett Eiver, F.v.MueUer; Maranoa Eiver, MicfteZJ ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, 

 Bidwill, C. Stuart ; Warwick, BecUer. '^ 



7. J. singuliflorum (referring to the flowers being solitary in each axil), 

 Bail, and F. v. M., 1st Suppl. Sijn. Ql. Fl. 38. A pubescent or villous climber, 

 slender, but often covering the surrounding bushes to the height of 8 or 10ft. 

 Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate ; petioles about 3/lines long; lateral leaflets nearly 

 orbicular, 4 to 6 lines diameter, on petiolules 'of about 1 line ; terminal leaflet 

 broadly ovate or nearly orbiculate, about 1 or l|in. long and prominently 

 apiculate ; veins few, impressed above and prominently raised beneath ; petiolule 

 about as long as the petiole. Flowers white, solitary, with very short lobes 

 to corolla, often in each axil. Pedicels slender, about 4 lines long, with 2 

 minute bracts near the base. Calyx about 1 line long, with small teeth. 

 Corolla-tube cylindrical, S lines long, with about 6 triangular imbricate lobes. 

 Berry shiny-black, of 2 distinct carpels from 3 to 4 lines diameter, each containing 

 2 hemispherical seeds, or 1 carpel smaller with a solitary globose seed. 



Hab.: Nerang Creek. 



2. LINOCIERA, Swartz. 



(After Geoffroi Linocier, M.D.) 



(Chionanthus, Linn.) 



Calyx small, 4-lobed. Corolla of 4 narrow, small or elongated petals, quite 



distinct or slightly connected at the base, induplicate-yalvate in the bud. 



Ovules 2 in each cell of the ovary, pendulous. Style short. Fruit a drupe. 



Seed usually solitary, without albumen ; cotyledons thick and fleshy, sometimes 



slightly ruminate. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire. Flowers in 



axillary panicles rarely reduced to sessile clusters. 



The genus is dispersed over the w&ner regions of both the Ne'V and the Old World. Of the 

 3 Queensland species, one appears to be the same as a common one in tbe Indian Archipelago, 

 the two others, closely allied to it, are endemic. 



Flowers white, more or less pedicellate in loose triohotomous panicles . . . 1. L. ramiflora. 

 Flowers greenish, sessile or nearly so in clusters arranged in thyrsoid or 



triehotomous panicles 2. L. picrophloia. 



Flowers yellow, sessile in a single sessile axillary cluster 3. i. axillaris. 



1. Ii. ramiflora (the flowers upon the branches), DC. Prod. viii. 297. A 

 glabrous tree, attaining a considerable size, but flowering when still a shrub. 

 Leaves broadly elliptical-oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, narrowed into 

 the petiole, penniveined and studded over with minute dots, 6 to 9in. long or 

 even more on barren shoots. Panicles axillary or below the leaves, triehotomous, 

 much and divaricately branched but shorter than the leaves, the ultimate pedicels 

 1 to 2 lines long and often clustered. Calyx about ^ line long. Petals oblong- 

 linear, 1| line long, connected in pairs by the stamens. Fruit ovoid, often ^in. 

 long. — Wight. Ic. t. 734 ; Prod. viii. 297 ; Chionanthus efusiflora, or Linoceira 

 effusiflora, F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 83 ; Chionanthus ramiflora, Koxb. Fl. Ind. i. 107 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 801. 



Hab.: Cape York, Af'GiZJforai/, W.Bill; Rockingham Bay and ranges near Eockhampton, 

 Dallachy ; Crocodile Creek, Bowman. 



The species was first described from the Molluccas. 



