Trachelospermum
(from trachelos, the neck, and sperma, a seed; alluding to the apical elongation of the seeds). SYNS. Parechites, Rhynchospermum (of Lindley). ORD. Apocynaceoe. A small genus (four species) of stove or greenhouse shrubs, inhabiting the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago, and Eastern Asia, extending as far as Japan. Flowers white, in loose, terminal or pseudo-axillary cymes; calyx small, five-parted, with five to ten glandular scales at base within; corolla salver-shaped, with a cylindrical tube, a constricted throat, and five oblong, twisted lobes; filaments very short; disk annular, truncate or five-lobed. Leaves opposite, scattered, penniveined. T. jasminoides is a pretty, greenhouse climber, of easy culture in a compost of light loam and peat. It may be readily increased by cuttings. T. jasminoides (Jasmine-like).* fl. white, very fragrant, several in a cyme; corolla tube contracted below the middle, hairy within at the mouth, the lobes waved, with reflexed margins; peduncles solitary, axillary or terminal, much longer than the leaves. July. l. on very short petioles, ovate-lanceolate, acute, the younger ones pale yellow-green. Shanghai, 1846. SYN. Rhynchospermum jasminoides (B. M. 4737; J. H. S. i., p 74; L. & P. F. G. ii. 147). T. j. angustifolium (narrow-leaved). A form with smaller, narrower leaves than the type; it proves hardy when grown against a wall in the open air in the south of England. SYN. Rhynchospermum angustifolium.