Jasmine

JASMINE substantive (Ar. iasmin). Botany – genus in the family Jasmineae which includes some forty species of climbing shrubs that produce fragrant flowers: Spanish jasmine.
— Flowers of this plant: double jasmine.
— Enycl. All jasmines are indigenous to warm countries. They are the most appreciated greenhouse plants, and when climate permits, they are grown outdoors. The most famous species is the common jasmine (jasminum officinale), which was imported from the Orient to France around 1348; it is used to cover walls and groves. One of the most beautiful greenhouse species is jasminum grandiflorum, sometimes called Spanish jasmine or Royal Jasmine.
 
Extract from the Trousset encyclopedia, 1886 – 1891.