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ENKIANTHUS reticulatus. 
Netted Efikianthus. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Ericea:. 
ENKIANTHUS. Vide supra vol. 1 l.fol. 884. 
E, reticulatus ; foliis oblongis utrinque acutis reticulatis breviter petiolatis, 
sepalis ovatis ovario multo brevioribus, foveis obscuris vix diaphanis. 
' Folia obovata, acuta, abrupte acuminata, in petiolo brevi crasso, acrnni- 
nata, reticulata, nou marginata. Bracteae inagis lincares. Calycis denies 
parvm, actitce, minute ciliatcB, ovario multoties breviores. Corolte majores ; 
fovea: nectariferce obscurce, vix diapkancBy et color minus splendens. Cetera 
E. quinqueflori. 
In the last article we have made some remarks upon 
the generic character of this genus. We will now offer a 
few observations connected with its sj)ecific divisions. 
All the species of the genus published in Europe have 
been referred by us to E. quinqueJioruSy but with some 
doubt. Whether the E. quinqucjlorus of Loiireiro was the 
same as either of the species now published, there is unfor- 
tunately in this country no means of discovering. For our- 
selves, we are unable to reconcile the statement of that 
author, that his plant formed a moderately sized tree, with 
the fact, that both our species are small bushes. But if we 
have a doubt as to the identity of either of our plants with 
the imperfectly described plant of the Portuguese Botanist, 
we do not experience much less uncertainty as to which of 
the species now described was intended by the Editor of the 
Botanical Magazine and Mr. Salisbury. Froiti the attention 
of the draui2^htsmen of neither of these gentlemen having 
been directed to the niceties of difference between two unsus- 
pected neighbouring species, it has arisen that the fibres 
of both are referable to cither of those now distinguished, 
and that the absence of internal evidence is badly supplied 
by evidence of Another nature. 
