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Perak : at Theripay Taipay, Scortechini ; Wray 2840 ; Gantley 23 ; 
King's Collector 2890, 3398, 7069. — Distrib. Sumatra, Forbes 2906. 
A very fine species of well-marked characters. 
12. Jasminum Scortechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A slender 
climbing shrub, reaching 60 feet in length ; branchlets dark-coloured, 
glabrous. Leaves thin when young, almost coriaceous when old, 3- 
sometimes 1-foliolate, opposite or sub-opposite ; terminal leaflet ovate 
or lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base ; glabrous on both 
surfaces, upper surface shining, nearly black when dry, lower surface 
dull, reddish when dry; 2-5 to 4 in. long, 1 to P5 in. broad; lateral 
leaflets similar but slightly smaller and often lanceolate ; midrib slender, 
raised beneath ; main-nerves very indistinct, apparently 6 to 8 pairs ; 
petiole -75 in. long, petiolule of end leaflet '5, of side leaflets -3 in. long, 
all grooved, slender, articulate below the leaflet. Flowers white, in 
axillary or terminal trichotomous cymes, terminal ones often panicu- 
late ; peduncles '6 to 1 in. long ; bracts ovate-acute or subulate, ‘1 in. 
long ; cymes sparsely scaly ; braeteoles at the base of the calyx minute ; 
pedicels -1 to ‘2 in. long, very much enlarged in fruit and then reaching 
•5 to - 7 in. in length and -3 in. in diam. at top. Calyx-tube campanulate, 
•125 in. long ; teeth 5, very short, triangular. Corolla-tube slender, en- 
larged above, -4 to -6 in. long ; lobes 5, ovate-cordate, obtuse, -3 to -4 in. 
long, spreading. Stamens included in the corolla-tube ; filaments short ; 
anthers oblong, mucronate, -15 in. long, connective broad. Ovary 
cylindrical, glabrous, 2-celled ; style slender, as long as the corolla-tube ; 
stigma clavate. Fruit didymous; carpels ellipsoid, -75 to 1 in. long, 
•5 in. broad ; pericarp thin, crustaceous, blackish-brown. Seed nearly 
filling the cavity ; testa thin, fragile ; cotyledons oblong-obtuse, slightly 
auricled at base, -5 to -6 in. long by -25 in. broad, plano-convex. 
Penang : Curtis 1227, 2031. Perak : Scortechini 383, 479 ; Ridley 
10679 ; King’s Collector 7006, 7009 ; Curtis 169. 
The description is largely after Scortechini MS. The species comes very near J. 
lanceolaria, Roxb., but differs in its more slender habit, thinner leaves, and large 
ellipsoid carpels. 
Ridley’s No. 8325 from Lankawi Island, Kedah, is a twiggy, apparently erect shrub 
with trifoliolate leaves, the leaflets all obovate-orbicular emarginate, the end one 
reaching 1-7 in. long and 1-3 in. broad, the side ones only about -6 in. long and broad. 
The fruits are of one carpel about the size of a small pea, and the flowers are unknown. 
It may possibly not be a Jasminum (Herb. Kew). 
The following species from Borneo is of interest, and may perhaps 
be found later on in the Peninsula : — 
Jasminum sakawacense, King & Gamble, n. sp. A climbing shrub ; branchlets 
pale brown, terete ; internodes rather long. Leaves opposite, chartaceous ; elliptic- 
