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“) SASMINUM Sambac. 
Arabian Jasmine. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA 
JASMINUM. Cal. monophyllus, divisus v. dentatus, persistens. 
Cor. monopetala, hypogyna, regularis, hypocrateriformis, 5-8 fida, la- 
ciniis lateralitér incumbentibus. Stam. epipetala, tubo inclusa. Germ 
absque disco cingente, 2-loculare; loculis monospermis; ovulis erectis. 
Stylus 1. Stig. bilobum. Bacca didyma; (lobo altero sepé abortiente). 
Sem. exalbuminosum.  Frutices sepiis volubiles. Folia composita, nunc 
simplicia, petiolo articulato. Flores in corymbis oppositi. Brown. prod. 
1. 520, 521: revocato Mocorio Jussi. 
7. 
J. Sambac, foliis simplicibus, oppositis, ovatis y, ellipticis acutis, v. 
~cordato-rotundis, glabris; ramis petiolis pedunculis- calycibusque vil- 
losis; racemis solitariis, simplicibus.. ww ise 
Jasminum Sambac. Hort. Kew. 1. 8. ed. 2. 1.15. © Andrews’s re- 
| posit. 497, ‘Willd. sp. pl. 1.85. Vahl. en. 1,25. 
Me vorian Sambaec. «Lamarck, encyc. 4.210. Illustr. 1. 23. t. 6. fi Le. 
Nyctanthes Sambac. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 18. Mill. dict. ed.8.n. 1 
Jasminum arabicum. Cat. pl. hort. londin. (A. D. 17:30) t. rig 
J. limonii folio conjugato. Burm, zeyl. 198. t. 58. f. 7 = 
Flos Manore. Rumph: amboin. 5. 52. t. 30. , = 
Nalla-Mulla. Rheed. malab: 6. 87. t. 50. a oo ye 
Sambac arabum s. Gelseminum arabicuin. Alpin. egypt. 72,73. Clus. 
cur. post. 3. P mrt entry aes Rs. ; 
Syringa arabica foliis mali arautii, DBawh. pin. 398. 
(z) flos simplex. ™, «J 
(g) flos multiplicatus. Andrews. loc. cit. . 
(y) flos plenus, Kudda-mulla. ‘Rheed. loc. cit. 89. ¢. 51. 
Nyctanthes grandiflora ; foliis ternis oppositisque. Lour. ft. cochin. 21. 
Biorgyale. Caulis teres, glaber, cinereus: rami subvolubiles, virides, 
villosi ; ramuli oppositi, axillares, obscuré tetragoni, in fine floriferi. Flores 
in racemo impart-bracchiato subquint ad unum. bractea basi pedicellorum 
appressa. Folia divaricata, distantia, membranacea, opaca, venosa, brevis- 
sime petiolata, ad summum 3-uncialia : ramulorum scepiiis difformia et mi- 
nora. © Segmenta calycis suboctona, tubo semunciali floris dimidio breviora, 
isubulata, erecta. . Cor. nivea, purpureo-emarcescens, caduca: limbus sub- 
octopartitus ; lac. oblonga, obtuse, v. ex superné inflexo margine subacute. 
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A favourite throughout the East’ on account of the fra+ 
grance of the bloom; but said to be native of only the 
warmest parts of India, An assertion universally repeated, 
put without any precise authority, that we can find. No 
author speaking of it pretends to lave seen it; or even 
heard of its being seen, in any other than a cultivated state, 
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