[Plate 23.] 



THE VERY SLENDER JASMINE. 



(.1 ASM I M M GRACILLIMUM.) 



A Stove Shrub from Northern Borneo, belonging to the Order Jasminace^e. 



|£>pectftc Character. 



JASMTNUM GRACILLIMUM. — Plant covered with spreading hairs. Branches long, very slender, cylindrical, bent 

 downwards ; leaves one to one and a half inches long, opposite, shortly stalked, ovate cordate acute, coarsely 

 hairy beneath. Flowers shortly stalked, in dense globose pendulous panicles, white, sweet-scented; tube of 

 corolla two-thirds of an inch long, nearly twice as long as the thread-like pilose lobes of the calyx ; limb of the 

 corolla one and a half inches in diameter, lobes as many as nine, elliptic oblong subacute. 



Sir J. D. Hooker, Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xv., p. 8. 



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THIS beautiful plant was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch of Chelsea at the meeting of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in December, 1880, where its merits were so apparent that 

 the Floral Committee unanimously awarded it a First Class certificate. And we may here 

 remark that when any plant has this distinction conferred upon it by the unanimous vote 

 of the whole Committee sitting, the award is significant of the more than ordinary merit 

 apparent in it. 



Hard-wooded flowering plants that possess the collective properties essential to their 

 becoming general favourites for pot culture with the gardening public seldom make their 

 appearance; but, if we are not much mistaken, this Jasminum is destined to find favour 

 with all who have a warm stove, more particularly as it is evidently a winter bloomer. The 

 well-known J. Sambac has always been a favourite, its only fault being a somewhat spare 

 flowering habit. In this important matter the subject of our plate is completely opposite, 

 as it produces its flowers in the greatest abundance, almost every point of the branches 

 pushing out a pair of slender shoots, on the extremities of which are borne unusually large 

 heads of pure white highly-fragrant blossom. In fact, so unusually profuse are its flowers 

 that they often quite weigh down the branches. Another good property it possesses is that 

 it seems to flower equally freely when the plants are small as when they are larger, an 



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