of it in that state from a dried sample attached to the his- 
tory of the species by Dr. Solander in the Philosophical 
Transactions; which has not however been cited in any sub- 
sequent book we have looked into. 
Native of China, Cochinchina, and Japan. Cultivated 
very generally in the gardens of India. The single variety is 
of much later introduction amongst us, than the double one 
so highly prized in our collections for beauty and fragrance. 
In the Hortus Kewensis, Otaheite has been numbered 
among the native places of the species; but we agree en- 
tirely with Sir J. Smith in regarding the South Sea plant, 
of which there is a fine drawing in the Banksian Library, 
as a distinct species. ; 
“The original idea and characters of this genus are 
taken from G. florida, commonly called ‘ Cape Jasmine.’ 
This was first brought to England by Capt. Hutchinson (of 
the Godolphin Indiaman), who about the middle of the last 
century, met with a bush of it in full flower, somewhere near 
the Cape of Good Hope, probably in a cultivated state. He 
brought the whole plant in a pot to England, and it was pre- 
served in the collection of Mr. Richard Warner, (of Woodford 
Row, Essex,) a great cultivator of exotics. Mr. Gordon, 
the nurseryman, having obtained layers from the tree, pro- 
pagated it so successfully, that he is said to have gained 
more than 500/. by the produce. It is now frequent in our 
gardens, treated as a stove-plant, though it chiefly requires 
great heat in the early spring to make it bloom, being at 
other times a hardy greenhouse plant. The flowers are of 
the size and aspect of a double Narcissus poeticus, with a 
sweet and very powerful scent resembling the flavour of 
ginger. They turn buff as they fade.” Smith J. c. ' 
The berries, which are full of an orange-coloured pulp, 
are used as a dye in China and Japan. The drawing was 
taken at Messrs. Colville’s nursery, King’s Road, Chelsea. 
Dr. Roxburgh observes, that he has always found a 
small inflected toothlike process in the bottom of each fis- 
sure of the calyx, which shows best when the berry is ripe. 
He gives the following description of the fruit. ‘ Germen 
turbinate, with 5-6 ridgelike angles, 3-5-celled at the base, 
1-celled above, with 3-5 parietal receptacles to which nume- 
rous ovula are attached. Berry oblong, orange-coloured, 
smooth, the size of a pigeon’s egg with 5-6 sharp-edged 
longitudinal angles the continuations of the permanent ta- 
per-pointed segments of the calyx, 1-celled.” 
