APPENDIX. 
A REVIEW OF THE GENUS JASMINUM, 
THE incorporation of the species occurring in the Flora Indica of Rox- 
burgh, the majority of which are there noticed for the first time, and have 
not been transferred to any of the general systems, is the only claim to 
attention that can be advanced for the ensuing Review. 
Dr. Roxburgh, though manifestly a man of talent and considerable 
shrewdness, was negligent in his writing, inattentive to method, and ap- 
parently endowed with a very slender share of literary education. The 
descriptions of the objects of his pursuit will be found replete with important 
matter and useful remarks, obscured by circumlocution and repetition, and 
still more by untechnical ambiguous terms, not unfrequently the vehicles of a 
sense in direct opposition with that intended. Others will judge whether we 
have retained the good, and rejected the faulty; we can only vouch for 
having presented the matter in a smaller compass, dnd ina tongue more ge- 
nerally in use among the students of Botany, than the one in which it stands 
in the original place. seas 
We are unable to decide to our satisfaction, taking the descriptions for 
the standard, whether arborescens and latifolium may not be the types of 
the double and full varieties of Sambac, so well known as the ei 
and Tuscan Jasmines. If neither of these is the type of any Epresunted 
variety of that species, it has not been found wild in any part of India by the 
author of the Flora Indica. Grandiflorum is another of the genus, which 
the Doctor neyer found wild in India, although universally held to be a 
native of that country. — at 
Several of the Indian Jasmines have been recorded by Vahl by such 
brief and vague characters, that we can have no assurance that others in the 
Flora Indica may not be their iterations; at least we must rely upon the 
sagacity and attention of the writer of the latter work for their not being so, 
Heterophyllum, apparently the most desirable and ornamental species of 
the genus, has not yet, we believe, appeared in our collections. Its large 
_ golden blossom is said to be produced in greater masses, and to be still more 
fragrant than that of revolutum, with which it agrees in colour. 
