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JASMINUM angustifolium; 6; lawrifolium. 
Alexandrian-laurel-leaved Jasmine. 
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DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA4. 
Nat. ord. JASMINE. Jussiew gen. 104. Div. IT. 
JASMINER. Brown prod. 1. 520. 
JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 1. 
Woe 
& 
Div. Foliis simplicibus. 
J. angustifolium, foliis ovatis mucronatis subtrinerviis, pedunculis terminali- 
bus subternis unifloris. Vahl enum. 1. 29. 
Jasminum angustifolium. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 36. 
Jasminum vimineum. Willd. sp. pl. 1. 36. 
Nyctanthes angustifolia. Linn. sp. pl. ed. 2. 1. 8. 
Nyctanthes viminea. Retz. obs. fase. 5. 9. 
Nyctanthes triflora. Burm. ind. 4. t. 2? 
Katu-pitsjegam-mulla. Rheede malab. 6. 93. t. 53. 
(2) angustifolium, fruticosum, volubile, leve: foliis oppositis, petiolatis, 
ovatis, glabris nitidé et saturaté virentibus; floribus terminalibus 1-2-3; 
corolla limbo 8-9-partito; calyce 8-9-fido; bacca simplici. Roxb. fi 
ind. 1. 95; (ex anglico). - : aR, 
(B) laurifolium, scandens, leve; foliis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis lucidis 
trinervibus; floribus axillaribus terminalibusque, 1-5, elongaté peduncu- 
latis; laciniis calycis 6-7 filiformibus, corollz 9-12 linearibus longitudine 
tubi. Roxb. loc. cit. 91; (ex anglico). 2 
(@) laurifolium. Rami teretes, bast ad divisuras membrand brevi va- 
inatis? Fol. coriacea, ovato-lanceolata cuspidata, divaricata, nitida, satu- 
vate virentia, 3-nervia nervis 2 lateralibus obsoletis, subavenia, 2-4-uncialia 
latitudine plas minus uncial: pet. subsemiamplexicaulis, brevis crassus cana- 
liculatus, horizontali-patens, articulatus geniculato-ascendens. Flores fra- 
rantissimi ochroleuco-albicantes, maximt, septus trichotomo-trini, peduncu- 
4s firmis subuncialibus, lateralibus divaricatis. Bractew opposite, subulate, 
- caduce. Cal. viridis, peduncult subequicrassi continuus, % circa brevior 
tubo corolle, ad % partes usque partitus, tubo brevissimo, segmentis senis 
radiato-divaricatis semitereti-sctaceis canaliculatis. Cor. nunc extis purpura 
nimbata ; tubus erectus striatulus } ad & partes uncie longus; limbus stellato- 
yecurvus sub-11-partitus mee sesquiunciali v. majore, lacintis angustis 
lineari-acuminatis. Stam. demers¢ inclusa;. fil. medio tubt inserta linearia 
erecta alba % circa breviora antheris lincari-oblongis mucronatis, polline 
fulvo-flavescente. Germ. breve conicum bicolle: stylus brevis: stig. clavato- 
continuum oblongum bilobum. 
— = 
_ Laurifolium of Dr. Roxburgh, which we have included 
in angustifolium, as a variety, 1s most probably of a distinct 
specific type, although we can find no mark, in the descrip- 
-tion given by the above botanist, that in our view will 
justify the separation. A comparison of samples of the 
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