Chives. Threads two, short. Tips small, within the tube of the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud roundish. Shaft thread-shaped, the length of the chives. Summit two-cleft.
Seed-vessel. Berry oval, smooth, two-celled or two-capsuled.
Seeds two, large, oblong egg-shaped, each in its proper seed-coat, convex on one side, and flat on the other.
Obs. The flower varies in its character of tapering to a point, or in being blunt-ended. In some the berry is simple, in others double-seeded.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Jasminum petiolis foliorum geniculatis; foliis ovatis, oppositis, nitidis, simplicibus; floribus umbellatis; laciniis corollæ obtusis, undulatis.
Jasmine with the foot-stalks of the leaves jointed; egg-shaped leaves, growing opposite, shining and simple; flowers grow in umbels; the segments of the blossom are blunt and waved.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The Cup.
2. A Blossom spread open, to expose the situation of the Chives.
3. The Shaft and Summit.
4. A ripe Berry.
5. The same cut transversely, to shew the cells and seeds.