256 
Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Climbing shrubs : — 
Calyx-lobes -2 in. long or longer ; leaves rather large : — 
Leaves chartaeeous : — 
Leaves and branchlets fulvous-pilose, main-nerves 
10 to 12 pairs 
Leaves and branchlets glabrous, main-nerves 6 to 
8 pairs 
Leaves membranous : — 
Calyx-lobes spreading, -25 in. long or longer ; fruit- 
ing pedicels thickened 
Calyx-lobes erect, - 5 in. long ; pedicels very short 
Calyx-lobes under -2 in. long, pubescent ; leaves 
small : — 
Corolla-tube short, -25 in. long 
Corolla-tube '6 to - 8 in. long. . 
Inflorescence axillary 
Leaves penninerved, basal pair of nerves opposite, produced to 
form an intramarginal nerve : — 
Basal pair of nerves prominent, branchlets round : — 
Flowers in few-flowered long-peduncled cymes ; pedicels 
1 to 1-5 in. long 
Flowers in many-flowered short-peduncled cymes ; pedi- 
cels under • 5 in. long . . 
Basal pair of nerves not prominent, branchlets 4-angular . . 
Leaves 3-foliolate 
2. J. GriffithiL 
3. J. Maingayi. 
4. J. Wrayi. 
5. J. Gurtisii. 
6. J. decussatum. 
7. J. bifarium. 
8. J. adenophyllum - 
9. J. longipetalum. 
10. J. smilacifolium . 
11. J. insigne. 
12. J. Scortechinii. 
1. Jasminum Sambac, Ait. Hort. Kew. I. 8 (1789). A sub-erect, 
straggling, scarcely climbing shrub ; branches terete, smooth ; branch- 
lets slender, pubescent. Leaves membranous ; variable, usually ovate, 
often broadly so, acute or obtuse at apex, cuneate or rounded or 
cordate at base ; glabrous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath, often 
with tufts of hair in the axils of the main-nerves ; margins recurved ; 
1-5 to 4-5 in. long, 1 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed 
above, raised beneath ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, arching upwards to and 
along the margin, raised beneath ; reticulations distinct on both sides ; 
petiole '1 to -25 in. long, pubescent, articulate in the middle. Floivers 
white, very fragrant, solitary or in 2-3-flowered terminal pubescent 
cymes ; bracteoles linear-subulate ; pedicels -25 in. long, pubescent. 
Calyx-tube campanulate, -1 in. long ; teeth 5 to 9, linear-subulate, -1 to 
•25 in. long. Corolla- tube slender, funnel-shaped, -5 in. long; lobes 8 to 9, 
spreading, as long as tube, oblong acute or obtuse. Stamens included 
in the tube ; filaments short ; anthers oblong. Ovary rounded ; style 
slender; stigmas 2, clavate. Berry didymous or with 1 carpel only by 
suppression ; carpels black, -25 in. in diam., sub-globose, surrounded by 
the sub-erect persistent calyx-teeth. Bot. Beg. t. 1 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 1785 ; 
Wall. Cat. 2868; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 301; Wight Ic. t. 704; Dalz. & 
Gibs. Bomb. PL 137 ; Brandis For. FI. 311; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 
