REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 1. The involucrum of the flowers. 2. A flower with its bractea. 3. A chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. This plant has been long known in the gardens by the title of Protea purpurea, but never flowered in this country till last summer, at the nursery of Mr. Williams of Turnham Green; when, instead of purple flowers, (as was expected from its specific title,) they proved to be yellow. It bears so great a resemblance to the P. teretifolia, that when we figured that species (by comparing it with a dried native specimen,) we were almost inclined to think a small variety of that plant was the P. corymbosa altered in its manner of growth in this climate by a different mode of culture. But comparison with the living plants has now determined them to be distinct species, and left no doubt remaining of this being the P. corymbosa figured by Thunberg in his Dissertation on the genus Protea. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCXCVI. JASMINUM MULTIFLORUM. _Many-flowered Jasmine._ CLASS II. ORDER I. _DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Two Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-8-partita. COROLLA hypocrateriformis, 5-8-fida, bacca bilocularis. SEMINA solitaria, arillata. EMPALEMENT 5-8-parted. BLOSSOM funnel-shaped, 5-8-cleft, berry two-locular. SEEDS solitary, arillated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. JASMINUM foliis oppositis, cordatis, glabris, pubescentibus: floribus terminalibus, umbellatis, quaternis vel octonis, in singula umbella: corollis albis, magnis, octofidis, odoratissimis. 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. [Illustration] PLATE CCCCXCVII. JASMINUM SAMBAC; _Var. flore pleno_. _Indian Jasmine; Full-flowered Variety._ CLASS II. ORDER I. _DIANDRIA MONOGYNIA._ Two Chives. One Pointal. ESSENTIAL GENERIC CHARACTER. CALYX 5-8-partita. COROLLA hypocrateriformis, 5-8-fida, bacca bilocularis. SEMINA solitaria, arillata.