216 JASMiNACE^. [lAgudrwm. 



long, glabrous or nearly so, and shining above when fuU grown, but always 

 more or less pubescent underneath. Flowers in oblong pubescent panicles of 

 1 to 2 inches, much like those of the European Privet. Calyx cup-shaped, 

 truncate, entire. Corolla-tube exceedingly short ; the lobes spreading, about 

 Ij lines long, valvate in the bud. Stamens rather longer. Berry globular 

 or nearly so, small. — Olea Walpersiana and 0. consanguinea, Hance in Walp. 

 Ann. iii. 17 and 18. 



Much cultivated in the gardens of the island, and found also frequently by roadsides, al- 

 though not perhaps truly indigenous. Champion. ; also Hance. It is believed to be of Chinese 

 origin, and probably includes the L. Stauntoni, DC., with the characters of which some of 

 our Chinese continental specimens agree well. It is also very closely allied to, if not a 

 variety of L. nepaUnse, WaU., from the Himalaya. 



4. JASMI]S"UM, Linn. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite. CoroUa-tube usually cylindrical ; the limb spread- 

 ing, 5 or sometimes 6- to 8-lobed ; the lobes oblique, contorted in the bud. 

 Stamens included in the tube. Ovary 2-lobed, with usually 2 ascending 

 ovules in each cell. Style 2-lobed at the tip. Berry 2-lobed (or entire by 

 the failure of 1 carpel). Seed usually solitary in each lobe, without albumen, 

 erect. — Shrubs or climbers. Leaves opposite 'or rarely alternate, pinnate, with 

 3 or more entire leaflets, or apparently simple, being reduced to 1. leaflet, the 

 petiole being then articulate. Mowers white or yellow, in axillary or terminal 

 panicles, or rarely almost solitary. 



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

 two S. American species. 



1. J. paniculatum, Roxb.; DC. Prod. viii. 310; Bot.Reg. t. 690. An 

 erect (or slightly climbing?) glabrous shrub. Leaves opposite; leaflets 3 or 

 rarely only 1, oblong, 2 to 3 in. long, coriaceous, smooth and shining, on pe- 

 tiolules of i to I- in., the common petiole about as long. Flowers white, in 

 loose terminal panicles. Calyx about 1 line long, truncate, or very minutely 

 toothed. CoroEa-tube near J in. long; the lobes lanceolate, mucronate, about 

 3 Imes long. Bemes ovoid, about i in. long, double and divaricate, or single 

 and erect. 



Common on Victoria Peak, and in ravines of other hiUs, Champion ; also Bance. On the 

 adjacent contment, and m Khasia. 



Order LXX. APOCYNACE.ffi. 



Sepals 5 or very rarely 4, free or sHghtly united at the base, imbricate in 

 the bud. GoroUa with 5 or very rarely 4 lobes, contorted in the bud, and 

 usually oblique. Stamens as many as the lobes of the coroUa, alternate with 

 them, mserted m the tube, and seldom protruding from it ; the anthers open- 

 ing inwards free or cohering to the stigma. Ovary either 2-celled, or rarely 

 1-celled with 2 parietal placentas, or more frequently the 2 carpels are dis- 

 tinct, but united at the top by a single style, usually thickened or expanded 

 in a nng under the stigma. Ovules usually several in each cell or carpel. 

 Fruit a berry drape, or more frequently consisting of 2 foUicles opening in- 

 wardly, beeds pendulous, or rarely ascendingv usually with albumen — lYees 

 shrabs, woody climbers, or very rarely herbs, the sap mostly milky. Leaves 



