Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 4, Part 1, page 1, (1904) Author: (By J. G. Baker.)
Names
JASMINUM HolstiiGilg [family OLEACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 309.
Information
A climbing shrub, branchlets, leaves, peduncles and calyx densely clothed with brownish-yellow hairs. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets ovate-deltoid, acute, rounded or subtruncate at the base, the side ones about 1 in., the end one 1 1/2–2 in. long. Cymes dense, many-flowered; pedicels very short. Calyx-tube campanulate; teeth 5, deltoid, very short. Corolla-tube almost funnel-shaped, 1/2 in. long; lobes usually 5, obovate-oblong, 1/3 in. long.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Kwa Mshuza, 4900 ft., Holst, 8966! 5200 ft., Holst, 9121A (ex Gilg).