unpublished drawings in the Banksian Museum is one of 
this plant, found: it in the E. I. Company’s botanic garden 
at Calcutta, where it was said to have been received from 
China. The Doctor subsequently ascertained it to be a 
native of Bengal. From him we learn that the flowers are 
sometimes near thirty in a bunch, and that even in those 
regions of beautiful plants it is in great request. The dark 
green shining foliage, which is the most abundant and 
thick-set of any of the simple-leaved species that we are ac- 
quainted with, covers whatever it grows against nearly as 
closely as Ivy, and forms a remarkable contrast to the 
snow-white blossom. ‘This is exceeding fragrant, and 
shows itself about August, continuing to blow in succes- 
sion for several months together. It does not turn to 
purple in the decay, as that of the Arabian Jasmine, nor 
is it so fugacious. The lower leaves of the flower-bearin 
branches are generally several times smaller than the others 
and rounded; the older leaves are often nearly naked, gra- 
dually shedding the pubescence that covered them. In 
the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis, by a mistake 
exceeding rare in that valuable work, the species is stated 
to have been cultivated by Miller in 1759, on the authority 
of the seventh edition of his dictionary; where indeed he 
thas recorded a plant by the title of Nycranrues hirsuta ; 
‘but which, upon critically examining his description, will 
be found really to be the Nycranrugs Arbor tristis. The 
present plant is in fact of recent introduction, having 
‘been first’ sent from the East Indies by Dr, Roxburgh to 
-Lady Amelia Hume. It is said to be easily multiplied by 
layers, and should be planted in the ground by the side of 
the bark-bed of the hot-house ; a small spot on the outside 
of the bed will answer the purpose. Our drawing was made 
at the garden belonging to the Comtesse de Vandes, at 
Bayswater. 
We should observe that the plant described by Vahl 
(enum. 1. 27) for Jasminum undulatum, we take to: be the 
present species, and not the Linnean Nycrantues undulata ; 
and this opinion is confirmed by his quoting for it Bur- 
man’s plant, which is the Jasminum hirsutum and not 
the undulatum. 
——— 
._ @ The calyx. 6 The tube of the corolla deprived of the limb dissected to 
show the position of the stamens. c The pistil. 
