Botanical Name - Jasminum pubescens

----- J. pubescens, Wild.; F.B.I. II-502. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 449. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 468. Vern. Jangli Chambeli, Hind. Advi-malle, Tel.

----- A climbing shrub, the stem spirally twisted in wedges which turn round each other rope-fashion. Bark light brown, extremely thin. Leaves ovate, from a rounded or cordate base; blade 1-3 in. long; petiole 1/4 - 1/3 in. Flowers white, fragrant, sessile, or on very short pedicels, crowded in softly tomentose, compact, terminal, nearly sessile corymbiform cymes; bracts small. ovate. Calyx-lobes very hairy, reaching nearly to the apex of corolla-tube. Corolla-lobes oblong-lanceolate, cuspidate, shorter than tube.

----- Met with throughout the Hyderabad (Dn.) forests. A handsome plant with large clusters of white flowers, conspicuous in the forests and also in hedges and among shrub.