290 Fasminc@—Fasmitnune. 
plant is deservedly a great favourite, though not so universally 
planted as it should be. Branches angular, slender, and flex- 
ible, deep green. Leaves opposite, deciduous, pinnate ; leaflets - 
lanceolate, acuminate. Flowers white, very fragrant, produced 
from June till September. A native of Northern India and 
China, and now naturalised in the South of Europe. There are 
variegated and double-flowered varieties, but none superior to 
the common one. 
2. J. friticans.—An evergreen more erect-growing species 
with alternate trifoliolate or unifoliolate dark green shining 
leaves and yellow flowers appearing in July or August. South 
of Europe. 
3. J. hiumile.—Another South European species near the 
last, but of smaller stature and humbler growth. Leaflets three 
or more, ovate-oblong, acute. Flowers yellow, in Summer. 
4. J. nudeflorum (fig. 163).—This deciduous species is 
Fig. lo3, Jasminum nudiflorum. (f nat, size.) 
remarkable for its numerous solitary opposite yellow flowers, 
which are produced throughout the length of the flexible oreen 
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