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acuminate at apex, obtuse or nearly cordate at base ; margins entire, 
recurved; 5 to 7 in. long, 3 to 4 in. broad; midrib very prominent, 
impressed above, much raised beneath ; two lowest main-nerves very 
prominent, similar to the midrib, curved upwards to form a pair of 
intramarginal nerves meeting at the apex ; remaining main-nerves 
irregular, 3 to 4 pairs, inconspicuous ; secondary nerves and reticulations 
raised above ; petiole '75 in. long, twisted, articulate in the middle. 
Inflorescence of axillary 5-20-flowered cymes ; rachis jointed, terete ; 
bracts spathulate, '1 to - 2 in. long ; bracteoles smaller, linear ; pedicels 
■2 to '3 in. long, greatly enlarged in fruit ; flowers white, tinged with 
pink. Calyx campanulate, tube '15 in. long; teeth 5, '05 in. long. 
Corolla-tube slender, cylindrical, - 75 to 1 in. long ; lobes oblong, acute 
or apiculate, '75 in. long, - 2 in. broad. Stamens inserted in the throat 
of the tube ; filaments short ; anthers linear-oblong, '25 in. long, 
mucronate. Drupe didymous ; carpels ellipsoid, '1 in. long, '3 to 
•4 in. broad, smooth, shining. 
Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3698 ; Maingay (K.D.) 997. 
11. Jasminum xnsigne, Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I. 278 (1849). 
An extensively climbing shrub ; branches obscurely quadrangular with 
pale-grey corky bark ; branchlets acutely quadrangular, glabrous, the 
edges pale-corky-winged. Leaves chartaceo-coriaceous ; opposite, occa- 
sionally whorled ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute at apex, cuneate at 
base; glabrous on both surfaces; margins recurved; 2 to 8 in. long, 1 to 
4 in. broad ; midrib slender, raised beneath ; main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, 
the basal pair faint, opposite, at about 30° with the midrib, produced in 
an intramarginal nerve - 1 to '2 in. from the margin, looped where the 
others, which are at 50° to the midrib, join it ; secondary nerves and 
reticulations obscure ; petiole '4 to 1'2 in. long, twisted, the upper part 
bordered for a short distance by the decurrent margins of the blade. 
Flowers white, in compact, many-flowered, glabrous cymes from the 
axils of the leaves or (more usually) from the stem ; bracteoles sub- 
ulate, ’1 to '15 in. long, caducous ; pedicels stout, - 2 in. long, somewhat 
angular. Calyx-tube campanulate, '25 in. long; lobes 4 to 5, linear- 
subulate, unequal, '25 to - 35 in. long, points hooked. Corolla-tube 
slender, '75 to 1 in. long, somewhat inflated above; mouth slightly 
thickened ; lobes 4 to 5, spreading, ovate-oblong, apiculate, -5 in. long, 
■3 to '4 in. broad. Stamens in the tube of the corolla ; filaments 
flattened ; anthers oblong, mucronate, '25 to '3 in. long. Ovary 
glabrous, rounded; style slender, clavate, obscurely cleft in 2 short 
stigmas; cells 2. Fruit didymous; carpels oblong, smooth, white when 
ripe. Miq. Bl. Ind. Bat. II. 541. J. cauliflorum, Scortechini MS. in 
Herb. Calcutta. 
