Jasmimwi.] 



67. OLEACEiE. 



217 



and North Kanara ghfUs, common on the glults from Aiiishi south- 

 wai-ds. Fl. Aug. -Sept. Fr. Doc. -Jan. Calyx-toeth sliort. Fruit-carpels 

 accurately spherical on alcuder pedicels, thickened at the apex, 



8. J. aurieulatum, Vahl. Symb. III. 1 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 600. /. affinc, 

 and J, ovalifoUumj Wgt. Ic. tt. 1255, 12-';G. Jcu', Vern. Dongr he chumhcU, 

 H. 



Dcccan peninsula and Ceylon, common ; cultivated in Sind. Through- 

 out the dry forests of the presidency, often in hedges, absent from the 

 Konkan and Nortli Kanara, usually scandent, sometimes a bush. Fl. 

 Aug.-Sept. Fr. Dec .-Feb. Lateral leaflets very small, when present. 



9. J. flexile, Vahl. Symb. III. 1 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 601. 



Deccan peninsula and Ceylon. Fl. Br. I. In the evergreen forests 

 of the southern ghats of North Kanara, common. Fl. Nov.-Jany. A 

 scandent, trifoliate shrub. 



10. J. humile. Linn. ; DC. Prod. VIII. 313 ; Fl. Br. I. 3. 602; J. 

 revoliitum, Brandis For. Fl. 313. Commonly cultivated in gardens. 

 Indigenous in Kashmir and the N. W. Himalaya. 



2. NYCTANTHES, Linn. 



A small tree. Leaves opposite^, scabrous. Flowers bracteate, in 

 fascicles of three, disposed in terminal trichotomous cymes. Calyx 

 sub-truncate, teeth inconspicuous. Corolla-tube cylindrical, orange ; 

 limb of 5-8-iobes, white. Anthers 2. Ovary 2-celled ; ovule 1 in 

 «ach cell, erect. Capsule flat, splitting into 2 subdiscoid carpels. 

 Seed erect orbicular, flattened, testa thin, albumen ; cotyledons flat, 

 radicle inferior. 



N. Arhor-iristis, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind I. 86; Fl. Br. L 3. 603 ; Bedd- 

 Fl. Sylv. t. 240 ; Brandis For. Fl. 314 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 

 51. Sephali, Sans.; Hursing, K. ; Parijtak^ M. ; Bar, singaJiai', shiuU 

 Yarn. 



Cultivated in gardens throughout the presidency, indigenous in the 

 sub-Himalayan and Terai tracts, Central India, Burma and Ceylon. 

 Fl. throughout the year. A large shrub or small tree. Wood brown, 

 close-grained ; splits when drying ; a useful fuel. The flowers yield a 

 dye used for colouring Tussah silk ; they fall olf during the night, hence 

 the name arbor-tristis. The leaves are used for polishing wood. 



3. SCHREBERAjEoxb. 



A deciduous tree. Leaves imparipinnate ; leaflets 3-4 -pairs. Flow- 

 ers in trichotomous, terminal cymes. Calyx 4-7-lobed. Corolla 

 hypocrateriform ; limb 5-7-lobed, lobes patent, imbricate in bud. 

 Stamens 2. Ovary 2-celled, stigma bifid, 4 ovules in each cell, pen- 

 dulous from its apex. Fruit a pear-shaped, 2-valved capsule, thick, 

 woody, loculicidally dehiscent. Seeds 8, pendulous, winged, albumen 

 0, cotyledons plano-convex or contorted ; radicle superior. 

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