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preserves it, for the preparation of perfumes. The essence of Jessamine, so much used in perfumery, is 

 prepared from the flowers of Jasmmum Samhan, an Indian shruh, and of J. grandiflorum, or Spanish 

 Jessamine. The J. offlcindle, cultivated in gardens, is a native of Asia ; its flowers were formerly em- 

 ployed in medicine as a nervine, aperient and emollient. The Nyctanthes Arhor-tristis is an Indian shrub, 

 the flowers of which open in the evening, and fall at daybreak ; whence its name of Somnambulist. 

 [The tube of the corolla afibrds a beautiful but fugacious yellow dye. The flowers of J. Sambao are 

 sacred to Vishnu,] 



CXLII. OLEINE^. 



(Jasmineaetjm genera, Jussieu. — OLBiWEiE et Ebaxine^, Martius.—O'LBiNE^, 



LinJc. — Oleace^, Lindl.) 



Lilac. 

 Diagram, 



Lilac. 

 Flower out vertically (mag.). 



Common Ash. 

 Flower (mag.) 



Lilac. 

 Calyx and pistil (mag.>. 



Lilac. 



Seed (mag.). 



Lilac. 

 Seed cut vertically. 



Lilac. 



Semi-septiferons 



valve of fruit. 



Ash. 

 Seed cut vertically. 



