PLATE 328. 
JASMINIUM MULTIPARTITOM, Hocust. (in Flora, XXVII, 1844, 825). 
Natural Order, OLEAcEA. 
A climbing shrub with white flowers. Stems much branched, wide climbing, 
terete or furrowed on opposite sides and sligthly compressed at nodes, glabrous, 
green. Leaves opposite, petiolate, exstipulate, ovate-acuminate to lanceolate, 
rounded or subcordate at base, acute at apex, margins quite entire, veins pinnate, 
surfaces glabrous, paler beneath, reaching to 2% inches long, ! to !4 inch wide 
above the base; petiole 3 to 3+ lines long, jointed and knee-bent in the middle. 
Flowers axillary and terminal, solitary, pedunculate, white. Calyx gamosepalous, 
tube cylindrical, | to 13 line long, lobes 8 to 10, linear subulate, erect, equalling the 
tube. Corolla gamopetalous, hypocrateriform, tube slender, terete, up to 1 inch 
long, limb 8 to 11 lobed, lobes linear, acute, $ to ? inch long, white above, pinkish 
white beneath, 1 to 2 lines wide. Stamens 2, on corolla tube, filaments short, 
anthers linear-oblong, 2-celled. Ovary superior, 2-celled, cells 1-seeded. Style 
slender, stigma 2-lobed. Berry didymous, cells 1-seeded, the cells almost com- 
pletely free from each other, one sometimes absent. 
Habitat: Natal; Near Durban, 150 feet alt, September Word; Inanda, 1800 
feet alt, December, Wood No. 356; near Durban, October, Wood. 
This is the second species of the genus that has been figurei in this work. the 
other being J. streptopus (Vol 1, p. 50) and in general appearance the plant now 
figured is very similar to it, but the conspicuous hairs on the leaves and petioles 
are, in this species, quite absent, and the calyx lobes are much longer. It will be 
noticed that the petioles are jointed, and when the mature leaf has fallen away the 
hard stiff base of the petiole remains, and most likely is of use in sustaining the 
plant amongst the low shrubs where it is most frequently found. It is known to 
the natives as is-Andhla-ka-inkosikazi or Queen’s hand. 
Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla opened ; 3, stamen; 4, ovary ond portion of style; 
5, stigma; 6, section of ovary ; 7, fruit, natural size ; except Fig. 7, all enlarged. 
