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ENKIANTHUS quinqueflorus. 
Red-edged Enkianthus. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Erick.e. 
ENKIANTHUS Lour. — Cal. persistans, 5-fidus. Corolla campanu- 
lata, 5-fida, facilt^ 5-partibilis, basi foveis 5 nectariferis calycis segmentis 
altemis. Stamina basi corollae inserta, pilosa. Antherce bicomes. Ovarium 
5-loculare, polysptirmum. Stigma simplex. Capstda. Frutices Chime, 
foliis fporsix, floribus termincUibuSf. bractm pliinmis coloratis circumdatia. 
Fhres rocei. 
E. quinqueflorus; foliis planis ovalibus acutis marginatis long^ petiolatis, 
sepalis ovato-lanceolatis ovarii longitudiiie, foveis diaphanis coloratis. 
E. quinqueflorus. Lour. ft. cochinch. 1.339? Sitns Bat. Mag. 1649. 
Melidora pellucida. Salisbury in Hort. TVojw. 2.156. 
SufFrutex ramis nudis, erectis, subsimplicibus, ad apicemfoliosis. Folia 
ovalia, utrinque acuta, plana, glabra, longe petiolata, ad margines et venas 
rubra. Umbellse terminales, inter bracteas, et folia nova, numerosas, pallidas, 
spatulato-lanceolatas,fiores cequantes. Flores solifarii, pendidi in longos pe- 
dictllos cl(u:ntos, rosei. Calvx 5-Jidus, Inciinis ovato-lajiccohifis, nristatis, 
glaberrimis. Corolla ntonopetala, canipanuluta, hxmcrosn. 'y-dcutnta, den- 
tibus obtusiusculis, paululuni ciliatis, ad basin foveis 5 ncctarifons, dinj)hfniis, 
coccineis, intus Icevigatis. Stamina 10, dimidiam corollce lor.gitudine, basi 
corolla inserta, basihus dilatatis approximatis. Filamenta <• lata hnsi suhnlata, 
pilosa. Antherae glabra, bicornes, poro duplice apicis dehiscentes. Ovarium 
oblongum, 5-loculare, polyspemwm, S^ius ^persistentf JUiformis, corolla 
longitudine. 3tigma simplex. 
The genus Enkianthus was instituted by Loureiro with a 
character which, from the singular manner in wliich that 
worthy Botanist understood the parts of fructification, mis- 
taking coloured bracteae for calyx, young leaves for corolla, 
and the real flower for the floscule of a compound aggre- 
gation of florets, was quite unintelligible to Willdenow, who 
undertook the task of publishing a German edition of the 
Flora Cochinchinensis. When, however, the plant of which 
the annexed figure is a representation first produced its 
flowers in England, in the year 1814, the identity between 
it and the Enkianthus was recognised by the learned Bo- 
tanists under whose care the Banksian Herbarium was at 
that time placed ; and the identification was not prevented 
