Of what country the species is native, I know not; for 
on this coast (that of Coromandel), I have never found it but 
cultivated; and it is always raised from seed, which may be 
the reason we have -two varieties of this most delightfully 
fragrant plant. In our gardens it is found in the state of a 
large shrub or small tree. Flowers nearly the whole year 
round: in Bengal only during the rains. The flowers exhale 
an odour something like that of fresh honey; they open at 
sun-set and drop off at sun-rise. _Destitute of blossom, the 
shrub has but an indifferent appearance. The orange-co- 
loured tubes of the corolla dye a most beautiful buff, in 
various shades according to their preparation and the mode 
of conducting the process, but unfortunately no means have 
been yet devised to render the colour durable. 
Trunk erect: bark scabrous: branches numerous, spread- 
ing in every direction; young shoots 4-sided, angles formed 
by 4 ligneous cordlike nerves that run beneath the bark. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, cordate, those next the flowers 
oblong, pointed, sometimes entire, sometimes very coarsely 
serrate, and sometimes with the lower parts angular, rough, 
3-5 inches long, 1-3 broad. Inflorescence may be best de- 
scribed as.a large, terminal, leafy, brachiated panicle, com- 
posed. of small, generally 5-flowered terminal umbellets. 
Flowers numerous, of middling size: tube orange-coloured: 
limb white. Involucre of the umbellets 4-leaved; leaflets ob- 
cordate, opposite, sessile. Calyx campanulate, mouth a little 
contracted and slightly 5-notched, downy, withering. Co- 
rolla: tube cylindric, length of the calyx: Jimb spreading, 
5-8-parted, contorted (slanting circularly); segments ob- 
liquely truncate, scalloped. Filaments nearly obsolete: 
anthers 2-lobed, sessile within the tube. Style length of 
the tube: stigma glandular, capitate. Capsule the size of 
a man’s thumb-nail, obcordate or nearly orbicular, com- 
pressed, 2-celled, 2-valved, opening transversely from the 
apex: seeds one in each cell, compressed, &c., as described 
by Gzertner, only that I have never discovered any thing like 
an albumen, 
‘The species is still the only one of the genus; may be at 
once distinguished from Jasmine by the fruit being a dry 
eapsule instead of a fleshy berry. 
liad 
