one has been assigned to the southern division of America; 
to the northern not one. a 
Captain Hardwicke’s account, in the Asiatic Researches, 
of his Journey to Sirinagur, the chief town of the province of 
that name in Tibet, is followed by an appendix containing 
scientific descriptions of the plants observed in the route. 
Among them is that of a yellow Jasmine, found by the side 
of a watercourse between the mountains at Adwaanee; 
and so depicted as to leave us no doubt of its identity 
with the present species; one point of whose spontaneous © 
origin is thus determined to be in the highlands of the north- 
west frontier of Hindustan. 
We gather from the same source that the plant forms a 
large bush. All those we have seen in our collections, 
though young, are of robust growth; and are said to be 
derived from one introduced about three years ago from 
India. Stem, in the largest we have seen, about the thick- 
ness of a swan-quill, with a smooth pale brown bark.. It 
grows upright, and has as yet no appearance of requiring: 
support, as the generality of the congeners do. The young 
branches are green, flexuose, and. furrowed, or angular 
above. Leaves alternate, unequally pinnate, on the upper 
side of an opaque blackish green when old, on the under 
much paler, unequally trijugous, or with 3 pair of leaflets 
and an odd one, sometimes with 2 and 4 pairs, seldom 
ternate, and now and then the top ones on a branchlet are. 
entirely. uncompounded; petiole furrowed above, convex 
beneath; leaflets opposite, shortly petioled, ovately lanceo- 
late, acuminate, terminal one the largest, often twice 
the size of the rest, and from one to two inches long or 
more. Cymes terminal (6-12)-flowered, subtrichotomous, 
loose. Flowers.of a golden-yellow hue, and of. the richest, 
fragrance. Calyx short, cylindrically campanulate, teeth 
short, pointed, separated by broad shallow rounded sinuses, 
Limb 5-parted, an inch or more across, segments broad, 
elliptic, round pointed, recurvedly expanded, the length of _ 
the tube. Anthers large, nearly sessile, protruded in part 
from the orifice of the tube, mucronate. Stigma 2-parted, — 
clavately united or with the lobes clubbed into one. 
The drawing was taken in the conservatory of Messrs, — 
Lee and Kennedy, Hammersmith. 
i ate = P + : . os oh 
a The tube of the reer dissected to BhoW the stamens. & The pistil 
with the stigmas artificially disunited. ¢ Aberry. d The calyx, ¢ 
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