Rumphius remarks, that the plant thrives about the houses: 
in Amboyna, but soon disappears, when these are desertedv 
Thunberg and Loureiro mention its cultivation in the gar- 
dens of China and Cochinchina, but as an exotic. 
Dr. Roxburgh, among his unpublished drawings, has a 
Jasmine, found spontaneous in thickets on the Coast of 
Coromandel, which he takes for the type of the species ; 
but which appears to us far too distinct to be readily 
admitted as such; having a many-flowered trichotomous 
inflorescence; a six-cleft calyx and corolla, with the seg- 
ments of the latter tapering to a point, divaricate bractes 
beneath the divisions of the panicle, and a foliage of an ap- 
pearance different from that of Sambac. . 
With us the Arabian Jasmine thrives best in the bark-bed 
of the stove, where it continues to bloom for six or seven 
months in succession; and when led along the frame of the 
building, attains 20 feet or more in length. The leaf has 
been assimilated by some to that of both the orange and 
Jemon-trees. ‘The flower drops easily from the calyx, and 
in decaying changes to a deep purple hue; the limb is under 
an ineh in diameter, with segments rather shorter than the 
tube. Formerly this shrub was imported by the italian- 
warehousemen from the Mediterranean; but this being en- 
grafted on the common Jasmine, was esteemed of less value 
than that from the layer, on account of the disproportionate 
(and thence unsightly) growth of the stock and eraft. Its 
Cultivation with us is recorded as far back as the year 1665. 
Clusius tells us that it was received at Florence from Cairo 
is a novelty, in the year 1660; the date probably . of its 
standing in that part of Europe, where it has become unt- 
versal. The large fult variety, known among gardeners 
by the name of the “ Tuscan Jasmine,” acquires a much 
broader disk with a shorter tube, by the filling of the flower. 
The bloom of this is strung by the females of India in the 
evening of the day into chaplets and necklaces. Sambac is 
the Arabian appellation of our plant; which, according to 
Alpinus, is in great request at Cairo. ils | 
Our drawing was made at the botanical establishment of 
the Comtesse de Vandes, Bayswater. : 
_a A flower deprived of the limb, somewhat magnified and dissected, so ag 
to show the position of the stamens and pistil. ; 
