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nodal line. Flowers in a terminal trichotomous rusty-pubescent cyme, 
supported by pale (white ?) leafy, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent bracts 1 to 
1'25 in. long; bracteoles similar but smaller; pedicels -15 in. long; 
flowers in each cyme about 15 to 20. Calyx-tube campanulate, - 15 in. 
long ; lobes 6, linear-subulate, - 5 in. long. Corolla-tube slender, cylin- 
drical, 1 in. long; lobes 8 to 9, spreading or recurved, -5 in. long, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute. Anthers oblong, - 125 in. long, mucronate. Ovary 
cylindric, glabrous; style slender; stigmas 2, clavate. Fruit not known. 
Perak : at Ipoh, Curtis. 
A remarkable species, distinguished by the very long hair-like calyx-lobes and the 
coloured or white large leafy bracts and bracteoles. 
6. Jasminum decussatum, Wall. Cat. 2860 (1829). A climbing shrub ; 
branehlets slender, densely rusty-pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; 
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; sparsely 
pubescent above, more densely so beneath ; 2 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. 
broad ; midrib ratber stout ; main-nerves 4 to 5, lowest pair obscure, 
rest curved upwards to meet near the margin, impressed above, raised 
beneath ; petiole - 3 to '4 in. long, pubescent, articulate near the base, 
the bases of each pair of petioles (as also branehlets) joined by a 
raised nodal line on either side. Floivers in densely pubescent axillary 
and terminal trichotomous corymbose cymes about 1 to 2 in. long, sup- 
ported by a pair of large leaf-like bracts ; bracteoles linear-subulate ; 
pedicels - 1 to - 2 in. long. Calyx-tube short ; teeth 6, subulate, ’1 in. 
long. Corolla-tube slender, -25 in. long ; lobes 8 to 9, as long as tube, 
oblong-lanceolate, apiculate. Stamens included in the corolla-tube ; 
filaments short ; anthers oblong, - 1 in. long, mucronate. Ovary rounded, 
glabrous ; style slender, longer than the corolla-tube (in short-stamened 
flowers); stigmas two, clavate. Fruit of one ellipsoid carpel, '2 to '3 in. 
long, glabrous. A.DC. Prod. VIII. 306 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. XLVI. 
ii. 241, and For. PL II. 151 ; Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 596. 
Penang : King’s Collector 1425, at Trang, 100 to 300 feet. — D istrib. 
Burma ( Wallich 2860, Griffith 3699). 
t. Jasminum biparium, Wall. Cat. 2866 (1829). A climbing shrub ; 
branehlets slender, terete, brown when dry, pubescent or nearly glab- 
rous. Leaves chartaceous, usually bifarious; ovate or ovate-oblong, 
acuminate at apex, rounded or truncate sometimes almost cordate at 
base ; pubescent or sometimes nearly glabrous on both surfaces ; 2 to 
3 in. long, 1 to F5 in. broad; midrib slender, pubescent, impressed above, 
raised beneath ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, pubescent, prominent beneath, 
arched upwards to join in an intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves and 
reticulations very obscure ; petiole - 2 to '3 in. long, twisted, articu- 
