Family : Oleaceae

English : Jasmine, Common jasmine, Catalonian jasmine

Hindi : Jati, Chameli

Gujarati : Chameli

Sanskrit : Jati, Malati

Part used : Leaves

Botanical Description: A large nearly glabrous, suberect twining evergreen shrub; leaves imparipinnately compound, opposite, terminal leaflets, larger than the laterals, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, flowers are fragrant white tinged with pink outside in lax terminal and axillary cymes, calyx lobes long and linear; fruits elliptic, globose berries, black when ripe. Flowering and fruiting has major part of the year.

It is found throughout India.

Modern Pharmacological Action: Not much study reported