JASMINUM NUDIFLORUM. 175 
J. grandifloeum or Catalonian Jasmine is too well known to require description. 
It is a native of the East Indies, and a great favourite on account of the exquisite 
fragrance of its flowers. 
J. latifolium. — A twining species, native of various parts of the East Indies, 
It requires the heat of a moderate stove, and should be trained to a pillar. 
J. laurifolium. — A native of the mountains on the east of Bengal. It forms a 
slender climbing plant, requiring the heat of a stove. 
J. officinale. — Well known as a hardy climber to almost every person. 
J. pubescens. — A fine greenhouse species, known in many collections by the 
name of J. hirsutum. It forms a loose, slender, straggling shrub, requiring support, 
and yet with but little disposition to climb. It was introduced here from the East 
Indies, but is supposed to have been originally a native of China. 
J. Sambac or Arabian Jasmine. — Several fine varieties of this beautiful kind are 
grown in our stoves ; they all form evergreen climbing shrubs, and under liberal 
treatment will cover a considerable space, and produce a profusion of richly-fragrant 
flowers. The species is a native of the East Indies, extending over a very wide 
geographical range. 
J. scandens. — An evergreen twiner, suited for training to a pillar in the stove. 
It is a native of Bengal and other parts of the East Indies. 
J. simplicifolium. — A loose straggling shrub, a native of the Friendly Islands. 
It should be grown in the stove, and if tied to a stake so as to allow of the young 
branches hanging loosely around, it will produce its fragrant white flowers freely. 
J. trinerve. — A native of the forests of Sylhet. It grows with us into a deciduous 
climbing shrub, requiring the heat of a moderate stove. 
Amongst the species bearing yellow flowers may be noticed, as amongst the most 
fragrant — 
J. heterophyllum. — A hardy species of Jasmine, growing to a middling-sized 
straggling bush. It is a native of Nepaul ; and, as a border shrub, the flowers are 
produced in abundance, and are very fragrant. 
J. revolutum. — A very fine species, native of the mountainous countries north 
of Hindostan, and of Nepaul. The flowers are large, bright-yellow, and are produced 
in abundance, if the plants are grown in warm situations out of doors. 
All the species enumerated above are of the easiest cultivation. The stove and 
greenhouse species grow with the greatest freedom in a mixture of light loam, peat, 
and very rotten manure ; the hardy kinds will thrive in any common garden soil, if 
not heavy and wet. 
Increase is effected by cuttings of the ripened wood planted under a hand-glass, 
and placed in a little heat. 
