654 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Orper XLIX. JASMINA'CE. 
Ox. Cuar. Calyx tubular, divided or toothed. Corolla salver-shaped, 5-cleft ; 
zestivation imbricate and twisted. Stamens epipetalous. Ovarium 2-celled. 
Cells 1-seeded. Style 1. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit a didymous berry, or a 
biparted capsule. A/bumen sparing, or wanting altogether. This differs 
from Oleineze, to which it is nearly allied, by the erect ovula, structure of 
seeds, and estivation of corolla. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple or compound, opposite, exstipulate, deciduous or ever- 
green; ternate or imparipinnate, with the petioles for the most part articu- 
lated. Flowers opposite, in corymbs.— Shrubs, deciduous or evergreen ; 
natives of Europe, Asia. and America. 
Genus I. 
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JASMI'NUM Forskoel. Tue Jasmine. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Forskoel Hgyp. Arab., p. 59.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 59. 
Si LY Mi tum Lam. ; J ine ; Jasmin, £7. and Ger. ; Schasmin, Ge. ; Gelsomine, 
Ital. ; Jazmin, Span. 
Derivation. Linnezus derives this name from ton, a violet, and osmé, smell: but the scent of the 
flowers has no resemblance to that of the violet. Forskoel, in his Zgyp. Arab. p. 59., says that 
it is taken from the Arabian name of the plant, Ysmym, which appears much more probable. 
Gen. Char., §c. Calyx tubular, 5—8-toothed or 5—8-cleft. Corolla 5—8-cleft. 
Stigma -lobed or bifid. Berry didymous, having one of the lobes usually 
abortive. Seeds without albumen. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple or compound, opposite, exstipulate, mostly sub-evergreen ; 
mostly entire. Petioles articulated. lowers white or yellow, axillary or 
terminal, odoriferous. — Shrubs, usually sub-evergreen, and twining or ram- 
bling ; natives of Europe, Asia, or Africa. Propagated readily by cuttings 
in common garden soil, and usually grown against walls. 
& # |, J. rru‘ticans L. The Sprig-producing, or shrubby, Jasmine. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 1. p. 9., Syst., ed. 14.; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 63. 
Synonyme. J. heterophyllum Meench, Lob. Adv. p. 389. f. 390. 
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 461.; Schmidt Baum., 3. t. 148., our jig. 1271., and fig. 1272. from a 
living specimen. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate, and 
simple, glabrous ; leaflets obovate or cuneiform, 
obtuse. Branches an- 
gular. Calycine seg- 
ments subulate. Pe- 
duncles terminal, by 
threes. Corolla yel- 
low, with oblong ob- 
tuse segments. (Don’s 
Mill.) A sub-ever- 
green shrub. South of 
Europe, and through- 
out the Levant. 
Height 6 ft. to 8 ft. 
Introduced in 1570. 
Flowers yellow ; May 
Se to October. Fruit 
1271. J. friticans, black ; ripe Nov. 1272. J. frivticans, 
A very desirable sub-evergreen, either for planting in borders, or against 
walls ; flowering freely, and ripening abundance of fruit. It sends up numerous 
suckers ; which, when it is desired that the plant should assume a garden- 
