JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM. 
(Naked-flowered Jasmine.) 
Class, Order. 
DIANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
JASMINACEjE. 
Jasmin - worts ( Veg. King.) 
Generic Character. — Calyx five to eight-toothed, 
or five-cleft, tubular. Corolla five to eight-cleft. Stigma 
two-lobed or bifid. Berry didymous, having one of the 
lobes usually abortive. Seeds without albumen. 
Specific Character. — Plant a shrub, with angular, 
deep-green, trailing branches, which have little dispo- 
sition to branch in the first year of their growth. The 
leaves are shining, deep-green, and each consists of 
three sessile leaflets, of an ovate form. They fall off 
early in the autumn, soon after which they are suc- 
ceeded by large yellow scentless flowers, which grow 
singly from the buds formed in the axils of the leaves 
that have previously dropped. The limb of their co- 
rolla is about an inch in diameter, and divided into 
six broad, oblong, blunt, flat segments.— Dr. Lindley. 
in Journ. Hort. Soc, v. i., p. 153. 
This new winter-flowering species of Jasmine is one of the introductions of 
Mr. Fortune, who sent it from Nankin, in China, to the Horticultural Society, in 
July, 1844. 
It was at first treated as a greenhouse plant, but the specimen from which we 
made our drawing in January, 1848, flowered in the open air, in the garden of the 
Society at Chiswick; it was trained to a wall, slightly protected by a projecting 
straw roof. It is deciduous, a very free flowerer, and produces its blossoms, which 
appear quite destitute of fragrance, after the plant has lost its leaves. It grows 
freely in almost any kind of light soil ; in the Horticultural Society's Garden it has 
been found to thrive vigorously in rough sandy peat. 
If grown in a pot a good supply of water should be given to its roots during the 
summer season, and it should also be syringed freely over-head every day. 
" In consequence of its slender habit it should be trained to a trellis, or to 
induce it to form an upright stem three or four feet high, so that the young twigs 
may hang down as they may be naturally inclined."* 
It may be easily increased by cuttings of the half-ripened wood planted in sand, 
and placed under a glass in a little heat. 
The generic name is derived from Ysmin, the Arabic appellation, although 
* Journ. Hort. Soc, vol i. p. 53. 
