according to Miller who received it from: thence, are filled 
with this shrub. In Surinam, we are told by the ingenious 
M. Sybilla Merian, it is spread over the country like a 
native bush, and is frequented by peculiar reptiles. But 
still it is not generally considered by naturalists as indi- 
genous in any part of the West Indies or the South American 
continent. . 
From being cultivated in Catalonia, especially in. the 
neighbourhood of Barcelona, toa greater extent than in 
any other part of Europe, it has acquired the english. 
specific name by which it is known among us. It occurs 
likewise in almost every garden in Valentia, Murcia, and’ 
Andalusia, where, as in Catalonia, it is completely domes- 
ticated, thrives in the open ground the year through, and is 
hardly ever without bloom. . In Portugal it goes by the name, 
of the Italian Jasmine. The perfume, called Essence ‘or. 
Oil of Jasmine, is obtainéd from this species.» The» Moors 
manufacture the stems of their tobacco-pipes ‘from its’ 
branches, where a tube is formed at once by evacuating 
the slender column of pith. The date of its introduction 
into Europe appears to have escaped the records of botanical 
chronology. It was already known in England in’ 1629. 
Usually propagated by ingrafting in a stock of the: 
common'sort, on whicly it takes well, and becomes hardier 
than when had’ from layers. In this state it is imported from’ 
the Mediterranean by-the Italian-Warehousemen, along: with 
Orange-and: Lemon: Trees,» Myrtles, and Arabian. Jasmine, 
with which it is usually kept in our greenhouses.” But 
if strong well-rooted plants-are turned out from their pots, 
without disturbing the mould they grow in, then placed ina 
warm border. against a wall, and covered with mats in 
frosty weather; these will grow much more vigorously, 
and produce a longer succession and greater quantity of 
bloom than such as aré kept in pots under shelter. 
‘The common white Jasmine, supposed native of the 
East Indies, but'the natural-abode’ of which has been left a 
blank by :the editors’ of the Hortus: Kewensis, has been | 
found by’some late russian naturalists to be indigenous in 
Imeretia, Cireassia, and the adjacent regions. 
DES: Mas io phir; : : 
: s The calyx. & A section of the tubular portion of the corolla. ¢ The 
pistil. 
