220 
OLEACEJ3, 
[Olea, 
base, the veining perceptible when dried. Flowers in sparse sessile 
axillary panicles in. long. Calyx yV in. long; teeth deltoid. 
Corolla T V in. long. Drupe not seen. 
Mauritius, Dr. Ayres ! (special station not stated). Leaves like those of 0. 
capensis in shape, but thinner in texture, with more distinct veins, and the inflo- 
rescence axillary. Endemic. 
O. obtusifolia, Lam. ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 285, (0. cernua, Vahl) , attributed by 
Lamarck and others to Mauritius, is known there in cultivation only, and is a 
native of Madagascar. 
2. JASMINUM, Linn. 
Calyx-tube campanulate ; teeth 5-9, long or short. Corolla hypocra- 
teriform, with a long tube and 5-9 horizontal lobes. Stamens 2, in- 
cludedin the corolla-tube, epipetalous. Ovary 2-celled ; placentationaxile; 
ovules 2, rarely 3-4, erect; style simple ; stigma capitate. Fruit 2-lobedor 
by abortion simple, membranous or fleshy ; lobes usually 1-seeded. Seed 
exalbuminous. — Shrubs, often climbers, with opposite simple or com- 
pound leaves, the flowers in terminal corymbs. Distrib. Tropical and 
warm temperate regions. Species about 100. 
Leaves simple. Calyx long, with setaceous teeth . . * J. Sambac. 
Leaves trifoliolate. Calyx-teeth minute. 
Downy. Corolla lobes 6-8 1 . J. auriculatum. 
Glabrous. Corolla lobes 5 * J. azoricum. 
1. J. auriculatum, Vahl ; A. DC. Prod. viii. 309. A wide-climbing 
shrub with branches densely pilose upwards. Leaves petioled, mode- 
rately firm, bright green ; leaflets 3, all distinctly stalked, roundish, 
obtuse or cuspidate, 1-1| in. long, the two side ones often smaller, or in 
the upper leaves not produced. Flowers in copious lax terminal corymbs, 
with ascending pilose branches. Calyx in. long, campanulate, 
pilose; teeth deltoid. Corolla white, fragrant, 1-ly in. long; lobes 
6-8, oblique-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, half as long as the tube. 
Fruit fleshy, 2-lobed ; lobes the 3ize of a peppercorn, smooth, 
.dark purple. Bot. Reg. t. 264; Wight, leones, t. 700. J. trifoliatum, 
Pers. J. mauritianum, Bojer, Port. Maur. 204. J. mucronatura, 
Reich. J. tettense, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. i. 248. 
Mauritius, in mountain and valley woods through the island. Seychelles, 
Some, 538 ! Also Tropical Asia and Tropical Africa, Jasmin du pays. 
We have also examples of the two following, which have strayed 
from cultivation : — 
* J. azoricum , Liun.; A. DC. Prod. viii. 311 ; Bot. Beg. t. 89 ; Bot. Mag. 
t. 1889, (J. flavum, Sieber, FI. Maur. ii. 255), just like J. auriculatum in 
general habit and leaf, but quite glabrous, the leaflets always acute, 
the spreading lobes of the corolla regularly five in number. Mauritius, 
Sieber ! Seychelles, Horne, 355 ! A native of the Azores. 
