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JASMINUM OFFICINALE. 
NAT. CLASS,-DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER,—JASMINACEÆ. ART. CLASS,— 
DIANDRIA ; ORDER,-MONOGYNIA. 
A shrub with low trailing branches, furnished with 
opposite pinnate leaves, composed of about three pair 
of leaflets, with a large terminal one. The fragrant 
white flowers are arranged in loose corymbiform 
bunches at the extremities of the branches. The 
calyx is monosepalous, with five acute teeth. The 
corolla monopetalous and salver-shaped, with the limb 
divided into five spreading segments. Two stamens, 
with very short filaments, and oblong anthers, are 
seated within the tube of the corolla, and near its 
summit. A single pistil has the ovary superior and 
two-celled, surmounted by a single style, terminating 
