Jasminum Indicum flore phoeniceo.
THe Indian scarlet Jasmine, from a large spread root, consisting of many great fibres and smaller strings, cometh up one, two, or more flexible branches, not able to sustain themselves without the help of something to support them, putting forth at every joynt some small short tendrils, whereby it will strongly fasten unto any woody substance: at the joynts come forth two winged leaves, which are as large almost as Rose leaves, full of veins, and finely nicked on the sides, which most usually stand three on a side and one at the end, which are reddish at the first, but afterwards of a fair yel∣lowish green colour; the flowers come forth at the ends of the bran∣ches many together, which are long like a Fox-glove, opening at the ends into five fair broad leaves, like unto that of the Gentianella, with a stile and small threds in the middle, of a yellow or Saffron co∣lour; in some Plants the flowers have small red lines on the insides thereof, others of a deep dark scarlet colour, veined with small yel∣low lines.
These are the varieties of Jasmines growing in our English Gar∣dens, unto which we will insert some other woody climbing flower-bearing Plants, which seem conveniently to cover and beautifie some Bowers, as