Habitat in Calcutta.
Jasmine with opposite heart-shaped leaves, smooth, and hairy: flowers terminate the branches in umbels of 4 to 8 in each umbel: blossoms are white, large, eight-cleft, and very sweet-scented.
Native of Calcutta.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.
1. The empalement.
2. A blossom spread open.
3. The empalement spread open with the seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
This fine new Jasmine was introduced by Lady Hume from the East Indies, and is the largest-flowering species of the genus as yet known. It is highly scented, and of the odour of the Gardenia, or Cape Jasmine. It is a handsome hot-house plant, but from its recent introduction is at present scarce. We find a small rude figure of it in Burman, under the title of Nyctanthes multiflora: but it is now better accepted under the softer-sounding appellation of Jasminum, an old fragrant and ever favourite genus.
The drawing was made from a luxuriant specimen communicated to the author by A. B. Lambert, esq.[Pg 9]
[Pg 10]