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JASMINUM paniculatum. 
Small-flowered China Jasmine. 
ance 
DIANDRIA AONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. JASMINER. Jussieu gen. 104. Div. I. Brown prod. 1, 520. 
JASMINUM. Supra vol. 1. fol. 1. 
Div. Foliis ternatis. 
J. paniculatum, fruticosum, erectum, undique leve; foliis (coriaceis). ter- 
natis; foliolis ovalibus, obtusé acuminatis; paniculis terminalibus; (co- 
rolla 5-fida.) Roxburgh flor. ind.1. 97; (ex angl. vers.) 
Sam-yeip-son-hing. Sinicé; (fide Roxb. 1. c.) 
Frutex erectus, glaber; rami stricti teretes foliaque subtis atomis callosis 
nigris crebré punctata. Fol. pallidiis virentia, coriacea, ternata (varo fo- 
liorum lateralium ubortté simplicia), decussato-distantia, divaricata, enervia, 
petiolata: foliola ovalt-oblonga, acuminata, biuncialia latitudine % uncie vel 
circiter, petiolulata, Panicule terminales, laxe, multiflore, brachiate, di- 
varicate, inferne foliose, pedunculis imis trifloris axique communi angu- 
losis, pedicellis unifloris calyce vix longioribus: bractex subulate breves pe- 
dunculos pedicellosque laterales arcté subtendentes. Flores parvi, albi, gratis- 
simé olentes. Cal. colore et substantia foliorum, oblongus, cylindraceus, 
estriatus, enervis, corolle tubo pluriés brevior, minuté 5-dentatus. Cor. 3 
uncie longa v. circitér, limbus 5-partitus, stellatus, tubo stricto gracili sem- 
unciali denique flavescente brevior, lacintis 2 interioribus subangustioribus 
cum acumine conspicuiore. Anthere incluse, flave, lineares, filamentis 
paruim longiores: pollen granulosum, yegeum. Stigma inclusum, lanceolato- 
lineare, compressum, pruinosum, stylo'vix brevius. 
Introduced, according to Dr. Roxburgh, into the Bo- 
tanic Garden at Calcutta, from Canton; and within three 
or four years into the collections of this country, where it 
is treated as a hothouse plant. / 
The blossom, perhaps the smallest of the genus, dif- 
fuses a rich, but delicate, fragrance. 
Drawn at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery, in the King’s Road, 
Chelsea; where it is in flower for months together. 
An upright branching polished shrub, and, in this cli- 
mate at least, of a palish green: branches stiff, straight, 
cylindrical, and as well as the underside of the foliage 
thickly speckled with minute black dotlike calli. Leaves 
ternate (seldom, by the failure of the two lateral leaflets, 
simple), leathery, firm, decussately distant, divaricate, 
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