18 76. ERICACEXE: ANDROMEDE. 
supra nitida, subtus pallidiora, punctata, venis reticulatis . Bag, 
conspicuis, supra medium dentata, margine revoluta. Flores rt 
moso-paniculati, paniculis basi tantum 2—3-ramosis, vel simplic}, 
racemosi; panieule vel racemi terminales, recti, rigidi, 7-9 p 
longi, bracteis rigidis fere aculeatis pedicellos equantibus muni* 
pedicelli juxta flores bibracteolati, supra bracteolas articula 
post anthesin persistentes, bracteolis subaculeatis opposique’ | 
patentibus persistentibus. Calyx crassus, rigidus, 5-partitsub- j$ 
segmentis lanceolatis 4-5 lineas longis acutis, corollam exnge & 
dentibus? Stamina 10, dorso biaristata. Ovarium 5-lobwnis M. 
5-loculare. sus; Y 
Foxen: Amoy interior (Swinhoe!). Herb. Kew. bus, 
This is a very distinct plant, remarkable for the rigid naturegio- 
all the parts including the calyx; but the flowers are in too yoi2-3 
& state to determine the genus, and the fully developed coran- 
may possibly equal, or even exceed, the calyx in length, thouglon 
is not probable that it does. 
b.? 
) 
1. Enkianthus biflorus, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p.277; DC. Pre | 
vii. p. 733; Bretschn. Early Res. p. 161. 
Cuina (ex Loureiro). 
This is perhaps a reduced state of E. quinqueflorus, or it mi. 
be Rhododendron indicum. 
/ 2. Enkianthus quinqueflorus, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 277; Ds 
Prodr. vii. p. 732 ; Benth. FI. Hongk. P. 200 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1649 
Bot. Reg. t. 884; Rev. Hort. 3"* série, iii. (1849), p. 221, cum i 
color. 
Enkianthus reticulatus, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 885. 
Melidora pellucida, Noronha ex Salish. in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. i 
p. 156. 
Honexone (Wilford! Hinds! Champion! Seemann! and others, 
Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
The only localized specimens of this in the London herbaria 
are from Hongkong, and Loureiro records it as cultivated aí Wi 
Canton. 
[Enkianthus uniflorus, Benth. (Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 
p- 489), falls, as it was founded on a mixture of two different 
plants. | 
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