28 
- 56. JASMIXACE.E. 
ing a leafy oblong panicle : pedic. short longer than the cal. ; 
cal. campanulate 5-toothed, the teeth short ovate acute ; tube 
of cor. scarcely longer than the lobes ; “ berries obovato-glo- 
bose.” — Linn. Sp. 9; Lam. Diet. iii. 218; Pers. i. 8; Ait. 
Hort. Kew. (ed. 2) i. 17 ; Bot. Reg. t. 89 ; BM. t. 1889 ; Buch 
192. no. 166; Spr. i. 32; DC. viii. 311; Seub. FI. Az. 35. J. 
azoricum trifoliatum , flore albo odoratissimo Commel. Hort. 
med. Amstel. i. 159. fig. 82. — Slir. per. Mad. reg. 3, rrr. Clefts 
of overhanging rocks or cliffs in remote deep glens of the in- 
terior, about 3000 ft. above the sea. 11 In the Cerejeiras ravine, 
descending from the Caminho Central into the Rib. Brava, in 
a deep glen to the right of the path, 3 or 4 pi. hanging down a 
perpendicular cliff* or at its base, undoubtedly wild, Oct. 10th 
1866,” Capt. Xorman R.N. ; having been first discovered in 
the spot a year or two before by a Portuguese countryman em- 
ployed to collect pi. Previously it had occurred to myself, 
Lemann, and other botanists or collectors only in gardens occa- 
sionally at Funchal and the Mount. June-Oct. — St. climbing, 
rampant or decumbent ; branches slender straight long virgate 
or rather osier-like flaunting or declining; either trailing or 
hanging loosely over walls or down rocks or rocky banks, not 
self-supporting, ash-coloured below, gr. upwards and always in 
Mad. smooth. Foliage large and somewhat dense or cum- 
brous, bright shining dark gr. Petioles 4-1 in. long, petiolules 
in. long, all round slender smooth not twining, the middle 
petiolule longest. Lfts. 3- (rarely 4-)nate, 1^-3 in. long, about 
half as wide, thin but somewhat stiff' or coriaceous and ever- 
green, mostly considerably waved or undulate. FI. pure w. 
deliciously fragrant in loose leafy terminal panicles, rather 
larger than in J. officinale L., with the lobes broader and less 
acuminate and the tube thicker and shorter (i. e. about 4 or 
rarely 6 lines long). Cal. (including its teeth) 1-14 line long. 
The immature fr. is described by Commelyn as “oblongo- 
rotundus et viridis. Lauri baccis magnitudine non cedens.’’ 
The ripe fr. is figured in the Bot. Reg. globose, black, size of a 
small cherry. 
The objection against the old-established and familiar name 
of this species does not seem so absolute or surely grounded as 
to warrant any change. For though the pi. has not been found 
in the A 9 ores by any botanist or collector of the present cen- 
tury, it cannot positively be affirmed not to have existed in 
them formerly, at least in gardens, in the time of Commelyn, 
who says positively, “Soboles est insularum Azores dictaruin* 
indeque advectam primus possedi,” — especially considering 
that even in the well explored island of Mad. (to which it had 
