JASMI'NUM NUDIFLO'RUM. 
naked-flowered jasmine. 
Class. 
DIANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
JASMIN A CEAB. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
China. 
6 feet. 
Winter. 
Shrub. 
in 1845. 
No. 1 1G9. 
Linneus referred the derivation of Jasminum to 
two Greek words, signifying violet-scented, but this 
explanation has not been generally accepted. 
The first figure on our plate, exhibits another of 
the introductions from China, for which our coun- 
try is indebted to the London Horticultural Society. 
It was first met with by the Society’s collector, Mr. 
Fortune, as a cultivated plant, in gardens and nur- 
series, m China, and is by no means rare about 
Shanghae and Nanking. It must not be under- 
stood by our readers that the foliage and flowers, as 
shown in the plate of it herewith, are to be met 
with together in nature ; no, flowering by this plant 
seems to be a serious business of labour to it, and 
is not commenced till it has, in the language of the 
ploughman “doffed its toggery ’’—thrown off its 
vestments, which it effects in autumn; and thus, 
divested of foliage, in good earnest, it sets to the work 
of blossoming. Our drawing was not made till the 
middle of February, when it was gathered from a 
plant, on the open wall, which flowered gaily in 
despite of frosty weather. Fortune says, that in its 
native country, its leaves fall off early in autumn, 
