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5. Euclea sp.? 



A fragmentary specimen, with no flowers and fruit, and only the remains of 

 one flower seen ; is too imperfect for identification, 



Soeotra. On Haghier. B.C.S. n. 201. 



Order XLIIL OLEACE^E. 



A small order of temperate and warmer regions of both old and new worlds. 



JASMINUM. 



Jasminum, Linn. Gen. n. 17 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 674. 



A genus of some size, including odoriferous and beautiful flowering shrubs, 

 often twining, dispersed over the warmer regions of the old world, with a few 

 South American species. 



J. rotundifolium, Balf. fil. in Proc. Roy. Soc. Edin. xii. (1883), 77. 

 Tab. XLV. 



Fruticosum scandens velutino-puberulum ; foliis trifoliolafcis, foliolis petiolulatis subaequalibus 

 v. terminal! majore rotundatis v. ellipticis obtusis; cymis pauiculatis terminalibus ; 

 floribus majoribus pedicellatis ; calyce truncato; corollse tubo elongato, lobis 5-6 oblongis ; 

 baccis spepe 2 globosis. 



Frutex alte scandens caulibus subtetragonis puberulo-velutinis. Folia opposita trifoliolata 

 petiolata 2^-3^ poll, longa, petiolo §— \ poll, longo puberulo ; foliola subaequalia sed 

 terminale frequentius rnajus rotundata v. elliptica v. suborbicularia obtusa srepe emarginata 

 basi nonnunquam inaequilateralia late cuneata l£-2 poll, longa f— 2 poll, lata omnia 

 petiolulata (petiolulo folioli terminalis -f-1 poll, longo, lateralium \ poll, longo) glabra 

 nitida sed subtus axillis nervorum 2-3 primarium basalium villosis. Cymce terminales 

 multiflorse paniculate©; pedicelli \ poll, longi sursum dilatati puberuli ; bracteolte minutae 

 ovatse amplexicaules. Flores majusculi. Calyx truncatus margine suberosus ^ poll, 

 longus. Corollai albse suaveolentas tubus f poll, longus, limbi lobi 5-6 oblongo-obtusi \ 

 poll, longi. Stamina supra medium tubi inserta ; antberse lanceolatse obtusa? filamentis 

 duplolongiores. Stylus exsertus supra corn planatus apice breviter bilobatus. Fructus ssepe 

 didymus, bacea quaque globosa \ poll. diam. nigra nitida. 



Soeotra. On the hills in several places, often at a high altitude. B.C.S. 

 n. 173. Schweinf. n. 649. 



Distrib. Endemic. 



A very sweet-scented species. We found it very abundant on the eastern 

 plateau of the island, but it occurs also on Haghier. 



It is closely allied to J. mauritianum, Bojer (Hort. Maur. 204; DC. Prod, 

 viii. 310), a plant of Mauritius and Seychelles, erroneously referred by Baker 

 (Flor. Maur. and Seych. 220) to J. auriculalum, Vahl (Symb. hi. 1; DC. Prod. viii. 



