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JASMINUM gracile. 
Australian Jasmine. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. JASMINEE. Jussieu gen. 104. Div. HT. Fructus baccatus. 
JASMINER. Brown prod. 1. 520. 
_JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. ‘hl. 1. 
Div. Folia simplicia, : 
J. gracile, foliis ovatis nitidis, petioli articulo superiore vix triplo longiore, 
i calycibus Gert ae dentibus brevissimis. Brown prod. 1. 521. 
asminum gracile. -Andrews’s reposit. #27. Kaenig in ani. o $23 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2.1.16. e z Fibats 22 S085 
Jasminum geniculatum. Venten. choix. 8. : ; 
Arbor parva, tota glabra. Rami teretes, inferiores canescentes, superi- 
ores virescentes.. Fol. opposita, petiolata, patentia, ovato-elliptica, acumi- 
nata, integerrima, levissima, plana, enervia, immerse venosa: venis. infe- 
rioribus extra medium margini parallelis; duas uncias longa. Petioli foliis 
quadruplo. breviores, supra canaliculatt, prope basin geniculo incrassato in- 
structi, infra quem terctes. Racemi terminales, compositi, ter vel quater 
trichotomt, expansi, longitudine foliorum. Pedunculi et communes et par- 
tiales filiformes. Cal. monophyllus, cyathiformis, levis, parvus, lineam 
unam longus, persistens, quingue- v. sex- Taro septemdentatus, dentibus acutis 
minutis, subequalibus. Cor. monopetala, hypocrateriformis, alba; (suave- 
olens, odore JASMINI officinalis): Tubus cylindraceus, angustus, semunci- 
alis, superné compressus: Limbus patens, planus, 5-G6- vel rard'7 partitus: 
Laciniz oblonga, acute, .basi subimbricate. Fil. 2, brevissima, tubo supra 
medium inserta, erecta: Anthere erecte, oblonge, intra faucem recondite 
a flavo virentes: Pollen luteum. Germ. superum, subrotundum, subdidy- 
mum: Stylus jiliformis, erectus, tubo paulo longior, albus: Stigma bifidum: 
laciniis crasstusculis planis erectis virescentibus. Pericarpium (2mmaturum ) 
biloculare: Semina solitaria. Solander MSS. apud mus. banks. (sub JAs- 
MINO lucido.) 
Native of New Holland and Norfolk Island. Intro- 
duced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1791, and now very common 
in our greenhouses, where it is seen in flower most part of 
the summer and autumn. : a 
In a review of the “ Choix des Plantes” of Ventenat 
by Mr. Koenig, in the Annals of Botany, we find the fol 
lowing original and ingenious elucidation of the nature of 
the leaves of this genus: ; 
« Jasminum geniculatum. This is no other than the 
J. lucidum of the Banksian Herbarium, figured in ‘the Bo- 
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