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ENKIANTHUS Lour. 
Enkianthus quinqueflorus Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 277 (1790). — Sims 
in Bot. Mag. XL. t. 1649 (1814). — Lindley in Bot. Reg. XI. t. 884 
(1825). — Decaisne in Rev. Hort., 1849, 221, fig. 12. — Bentham, Fl. 
Hongk. 200 (1861).— Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 18 (1889). — 
Wilson in Gard. Chron., ser. 3, XLI. 344 (1907). — Dunn & Tutcher 
in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. add. ser. X. 154 (Fl. Kwangtung & 
Hongkong (1912). 
aS pellucida Noronha apud Salisbury in Trans. Hort. Soc. Lond. I. 
eadeni es Lindley in Bot. Reg. XI. t. 885 (1825). — De Candolle 
Prodr. VII. 732 (1839). 
Enkianthus uniflorus Bentham in Hooker’s Jour. Bot. I. 489 (1842). 
Native of Hongkong and south-eastern China where it is also commonly cul- 
tivated. 
Enkianthus quinqueflorus, var. serrulatus Wilson in Gard. Chron. 
ser. 3, XLI. 344 (1907). 
Enkianthus serrulatus Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 519 (1911). 
Western Hupeh: Patung, woodlands, alt. 1900 m., April 25, 
1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 92, type; tree 6 m. tall, flowers white). 
Eastern Szech’uan: south Wushan, sheltered ravines, alt. 1300 m., 
December 1907 (No. 770; bush or small tree 1-8 m. tall); without lo- 
eality, A. Henry (No. 5475). Yunnan: Mengtze, mountains south 
of, forests, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 11009). 
Not common. We cannot follow Schneider in considering this a distinct species. 
All the differences are in the leaves. z 
Enkianthus deflexus Schneider, IU. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 521 
(1911). 
Rhodora defleza Griffith, Posth. Papers (Itin. Notes) II. 148, No. 969 ase. 
Enkianthus himalaicus Hooker f. & Thomson in Hooker's Kew Jour. Bot. VII 
125, t. 3 (1855). — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CV. t. 6460 (1879). — Clarke in 
Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 461 (1882). — Wilson in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 
XLI. 344 (1907). 
Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, on cliffs, alt. 2300-3300 m., June 
and October 1908 (No. 1155; bush 2-6 m., flowers orange and gold to 
salmon-red) ; Ching-chi Hsien, Ta-hsiang-ling, rocky places, alt. 1600- 
2600 m., May 1908 (No. 3550; bush 2-4 m., flowers orange and yellow); 
Mupin, cliffs, alt. 2500-3300 m., July 1908 (No. 3551; bush 3-6 m. 
