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two plants might have furnished the means of satisfactory 
discrimination; but we have not yet met with any certain 
one of angustifolium; though the plant is said to be in our 
gardens, and very common in India, where it is found 
in every forest on the Coast of Coromandel. 
In Mr. Lambert’s Herbarium, there is a closely allied 
species found at Sembu, in Nepaul, by Dr. Buchanan, and 
inscribed dichotomum; but which may be at once distin- 
guished from the present species by segments of the calyx, 
which are subulate and shorter than the tubular portion. 
(8) laurifolium is a twining shrub with a simple bright- 
green shining leaf, and a large exquisitely fragrant flower, 
diffusing a perfume which in some degree reminds us of 
frankincense, It is found in the mountainous country to 
the East of Bengal, and has been very lately introduced, 
_ having flowered in October last, for the first time, in the 
- hothouse of the nursery of Messrs. Colvill, in the King’s 
Road, Chelsea. 
The following description is by Dr. Roxburgh: 
« Leaves opposite, subsessile, ovate-lanceolate, firm and 
“ glossy; margins entire, somewhat thick; faintly 3-nerved; 
“from two to four inches long, and from one to two 
“broad. Pedunceles terminal and axillary, sometimes single, 
“ sometimes several together, and sometimes, when termi- 
“nal, subracemed; long and slender. Bractes opposite, 
“subulate. Calyx from 5 to 7-cleft; segments long, slen- 
“ der, filiform and smooth. Corolla: tube twice the length 
“ of the calyx, subclavate; limb of from 9 to 12, ensiform, 
“ spreading segments which are as long as the tube. Sta- 
* mina within the tube. Germen 2-celled, with one ovulum 
“in each cell, attached to the middle of the partition. 
* Style and stigma clavate, scarcely reaching to the an- 
“ thers.” 
We find by the Flora Indica that twenty native species 
of Jasmine are cultivated in the Botanic Garden of Cal- 
cutta; of which some, from the mountainous and conse- 
quently cooler regions of India, have never flowered in 
- that establishment. 
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