294 JASMINACE35 AND OLEACK/E. 



Order 83. JASXHRTACEJE.— Jasmine Family. 



BintbSj often with twining stems, opposite or alternate mostly compound hares and 

 white, or ydlow, mostly frigrant jlowzrs in oppooit; corymbs. Calyx divided or 

 toothed, . persistant. Coidlia regular, salver-form, the limb in 5. to 8 divisions. 

 Stamen s 2, arising from the corolla and includ x\ within its tub?. Ovary free, 2- 

 cclled, eaota cell with 1 erect ovule. Style 1; stiuma 2-lobcd. Fruit a double 

 bsrry, or a capsule scpcrablo into 2, 2-secdcd. 



JASMINUM, Linn. Jasmine. 



Gr. ius:nc, psrfume; from the fragrance of the Eowcr3. 



Calyx tabular, 5 to 10-cleft. Corolla salver- form;: 

 tube long; limb flat, 5 to 10-cleft. Fruit a double berry ; 

 seed* 2, solitary, ariled. — Bushy or climbing shrubs, with op- 

 posite compound leaves on articulated petioles, and while or yellow 

 mostly fragrant Jkwsrs in paniculate corymbs. 



1. J, FHUTICANS, L. Yellow Jasmine. 



Smooth, cre;t; branches angular-; leaves alternate trifoliate, rarely pimple; 

 laaflets carrel; fiowers few, Bubtcrminal ; calpx segments subulate; cor ' 

 twice logger than the calyx, limb of 5, obtuse lobes. Native of South B 

 Stem 5 .feet high, bushy. Flowirs yellow, inodorous, the tub? about x /, inch long. 



2. J", officinale, L. White Jasmine. Common Jasmine. 



Smooth, scarcely climbing; branskei subangulate; leaflets 3 to 7, lanceolate, 

 acuminate ; panicles terminal, few-flowered, corymbose; orolla-tube twice longer 

 than the calyx. Native of Asia. A beautiful and much cultivated speciw, several 

 feet high, with fragrant whit j Bowers. 



Order &4. OLEAGEHI;— Olive Family. 



Trees or shrubs, with opposite and pinnate or simple leaves, a 4-cleft cr sometime* 

 Isolde calyx, a regular bcUft or n-arly ^petalaas corolla, sometimes apetalous, 2, or 

 rarely Z, stamens, and a beetled awry I i« each cell. ImiSf. 



drupaceous, baccate or Bamarse, usualiy l-seeitcd by abortion. BixM anatropous, 

 with a large straight embryo usually in hard fleshy albumen. 



1. LIGUSTRUM, Tourn: Piiivet.. 



The classical name. 



Calyx minutely 4-toothcd, deciduous. Corolla funnel- 

 form, 4-lobcd; lobes ovate, obtuse: Stamens 2, on the tube 

 of the corolla, included. Style very short ; stigma 2-cleft. 

 Berry globose, 2-cclled, 2 to 1-seeded.— Shrtths with sim- 

 ple entire leaves on short petioles, and small white fowcrs in terminal 

 thyreoid panicles. 



