common plant. Introduced by Sir Joseph Banks in 1790. 
No drawing of it has been published before the present, 
which was taken in the summer at the nursery of Messrs. 
Whitley and Co. Fulham; where it is treated as a tender 
greenhouse plant. 
A grey furred shrub, in the plant we saw, of straggling 
growth: stem upright, flexuose, bark cracked, pale brown: 
branches opposite, round, when not flowerbearers twining and 
flexile with a ternated foliage, when flowerbearers straight 
and rather stiff with a simple foliage. Leaves distichly op- 
posite or facing by pairs in two ranks only, widespread; 
leaflets ovate, nerved, the end one many times larger than 
the two diminutive side ones, largest (seen by us) about an 
inch and an half long, acuminated at the top and mucro- 
nate, in some instances broadly elliptic and nearly round: 
petioles shaggily furred, general ones about 4 times shorter 
than the terminal leaflet, partial ones extremely short. 
Panicles short, terminal, trichotomous, in the gardens of 
this climate partially abortive: peduncles and pedicles round 
tomentose or short-woolled. Bractes small, somewhat open. 
Flowers in each trichotomy crowded ‘and subsessile, of the 
‘smallest size in the genus, white. Calyx narrow, turbi- 
nately cylindrical, furred, thick, marked lengthways by 
five equidistant extremely narrow membranous seams, five- 
toothed, teeth bluntish, pubescent inside and outside. Limb 
of the corolla 5-7-parted, stellate, shorter than the tube, 
‘segments standing apart, linearly oblong, bluntish with a 
short point, edges of the sides revolute, about a quarter of an 
inch in length; ¢ube together with the faux 4 times longer 
than the calyx, about a third of an inch long, streakletted, 
with a small external embossment on both sides at the point 
_of insertion of each filament: faux almost as long as the 
tube, narrowly turbinate, compressed. Filaments short, 
bent abruptly inwards at the base, and projecting from the 
wall of the faux, so as to meet together at its axis: anthers 
yellow, linear, three times longer than the filaments, mu- 
cronate, below the orifice of the faux. Style even with 
the faux, green: stigma clavately enlarged, compressed, 
subulately pointed, seamed down the sides. Germen smooth. 
Berry globular, like that of the Arabian Jasmine. 
