A bushily branched dark full-leaved shrub, having a 
thickish straight tall clean stem with an opaque chesnut- 
brown bark: branches brachiately subdivided, long, twining 
at the upper part, numerously leaved, round, like the branch- 
lets petioles peduncles and calyxes covered with a close short 
roughish fur. Leaves cordate, oblong, of a dark dingy 
glossy green, shortly petioled, opposite, 1;-2 inches long, 
tapered, slightly waved, veinless, netved. Peduncles gene- 
rally three-flowered. Flowers white. Segments of the calyx 
narrow, setiform, straight. Limb of the corolla eight-parted, 
stellate: segments oblong. 
Jasminum and NycrantHes are now the only genera 
comprised in the Order Jasminew; abundantly distinguished, 
as Mr. Brown observes, from the Oleinw, lately detached 
from them, by the difference of the situation of the ovula, as 
well as of the structure of the seed, the mode in which the 
corolla is divided and its estivation (or the way it is disposed 
in the bud-state). Neither is there any resemblance between 
the general appearances of the two orders ; though they co- _ 
incide in so far as that both have a diandrous regular corolla 
and a fruit which is either berried or capsular. 
The Jasmine, freed from the Oleine (or Olive-tribe), 
have been defined by Mr. Brown in the first part of the Pro- 
dromus of his Flora of New Holland, and the following is 
our version of that character. 
"Species shrubby and generally twining. Leaves oppo- 
site, usually compound, ternate or pinnate with an odd 
leaflet at the end, sometimes simple; petiole jointed in most. 
Flowers of the corymbs opposite. Calyz of one piece, either 
divided or only indented, permanent. Corolla onepetalled, 
inferior, regular, hypocrateriform (tubular with a divided 
rotate limb); limb 5-8-parted, segments overlapping at the 
edges, imbricate and twisted together before they expand. 
Stamens epipetalous (upon the corolla), enclosed within the 
tube. Germen without any surrounding glandular disk (not 
imbedded at the base in a shallow fleshy matrix as this part. 
is in some of the nearest tribes), 2-celled; cells one-seeded; 
ovula upright. Style single. Stigma 2-lobed. Fruit either 
a twin berry or a bipartible capsule. Seed either with a 
very scanty albumen or else with none at all. Embryo 
straight: radicle inferior. 
