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the apex or base. Fruit capsular, loeulieidally 2-valved or indehiscent, 
or a berry or drupe. Seeds solitary or 2 in each cell, erect or pendu- 
lous ; testa thin or bony ; albumen fleshy or horny or 0 ; embryo 
straight ; radicle inferior or superior. — Distrib. Tropical and tempe- 
rate regions of the world ; genera about 18, species about 280. 
Corolla-lobes imbricate : — 
Seeds exalbuminous ; usually climbing shrubs 
Seeds albuminous ; small trees.. 
Corolla-lobes valvate : — 
Radicle superior ; trees or erect shrubs : — 
Corolla-tube very short, petals often in pairs 
Corolla tubular, sometimes absent 
Radicle inferior ; climbing shrubs 
1. Jasminom. 
2. OSMANTHUS. 
3. Linociera. 
4. Olea. 
5. Myxopyrcm. 
Nyctanthes Arbor-tristis, Linn., is found in gardens in cultivation. 
1. Jasminum, Linn, 
Erect or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely alternate, 
simple trifoliolate or imparipinnate, generally entire ; petiole usually 
articulate. Flowers often handsome, white pink or yellow, often 
sweet-scented, in 2- or 3-chotomous or simple cymes or sometimes 
solitary, axillary or terminal, inflorescence centrifugal ; bracts linear 
and small or ovate, sometimes petaloid, braeteoles usually linear. 
Calyx-tube usually funnel-shaped or eampanulate ; lobes 4 to 9, linear, 
long or short or 0. Corolla-tube narrow, more or less elongate ; lobes 
4 to 9, spreading, much imbricate. Stamens 2, usually included in the 
corolla-tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong, attached to the filaments 
at the back near the base, cells parallel, connective broad, usually pro- 
duced in a mueronate point. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules usually 2 in each 
cell, attached near the base ; style filiform, long or short, often both in 
different flowers on the same plant ; stigma oblong or capitate, gene- 
rally bifid. Berry didymous or simple by suppression of one carpel ; 
carpels globose, ellipsoid or elongate, pericarp usually of two layers, 
the outer (exocarp) membranous, the inner (endocarp) fleshy or fibrous. 
Seeds usually 1 in each carpel, sometimes 2, testa very thin ; albumen 
none ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle inferior, very small, included 
within the cotyledons or slightly exsert. — Distrib. Tropical and warm 
temperate regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia, one species in Europe, 
many in cultivation : about 90 species in all. 
Leaves simple : — 
Leaves penninerved, basal pair of nerves not opposite nor pro- 
duced to form an intramarginal nerve : — 
Inflorescence terminal : — 
Erect or straggling shrub .. .. ..1. J.Sambac. 
