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no note concerning the nature of the stone or jputamen in the 
fresh pi. ; but though my original reference of it to Olea 
would imply its being hard and bony, it is distinctly described 
by DC. from my spec, to be chartaceous as in Phillyrea. And 
so accordingly I find it in an old dined spec, to be stiff and 
firm but fragile thin and certainly papyraceo-crustaceous or 
pergamentaceous, not hard thick and bony as in Olea. 
The more regularly or distinctly 3-nerved 1. seems to me the only 
point in which the above pi. (which is most certainly P. Lowei 
DC.) differs from P. angustifolia L. 
Order LYI. JASMINACEiE. 
The Jasmine Family. 
FI. perfect regular. Cal. gamosepalous 5-8-fid or toothed 
free persistent. Cor. hypogynous gamopetalous hypocrateri- 
form 5-8-lobed, lobes in bud imbricate and twisted, rarely val- 
vate. Stam. 2 inserted on and included in the cor. -tube. Anth. 
2-celled erect introrsal. Style short simple ; stigma capitate 
2- lobed. Ov. free without hypog. disk, 2-celled, 2-lobed at 
top ; oyul. at first lateral, then ascending or erect, 1-2 (rarely 
3- 4) in each cell. Fr. a didymous i. e. deeply bilobed or bipar- 
tite berry or caps. Seeds erect with little or no albumen when 
ripe ; spermoderm often thickened ; embryo straight ; radicle 
inferior ; cot. fleshy flattened. — Erect or sarmentose and climb- 
ing shr. L. without stip. opposite or alternate simple or mostly 
odd-pinnate, lfts. 3-5 or 7. FI. trichotomously paniculato- 
cyrnose w. or y., mostly fragrant. Pedic. opposite 1-bracteate. 
1. Jasminum. Cal. campanulate 5-8-lobed, lobes short and 
tooth-like or subulate. Cor. salver-shaped, the tube slender, 
limb flat 5-8-lobed, lobes oblique twisted in bud. Fr. a 
didymous berry, lobes divaricate, each mostly 1- (rarely 
2-)seeded. Seeds erect nearly or quite exalbuminous. — 
Shr. mostly climbing. L. compound and odd-pinnate or 
1-foliolate by abortion of side-lfts. FI. cymose w. or y. 
fragrant. 
1. Jasminum L. 
§ 1. Trifoliolata DC. ; 1. opposite 1-3-5-foliolate ; cal. -teeth 
short; fl. w. 
1. J. azoricum L. Jasmin branco. 
Sarmentose or climbing, smooth ; branches weak or flexible 
round elongate diffuse or trailing ; 1. 3-foliolate, lfts. rather large 
undulate smooth shining subcoriaceous ovate or subcordate- 
ovate acute or subacuminate ; cymes axillary and terminal form- 
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