Tas. 6460. 
ENKIANTHUS aranatovs. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcem.—Tribe ANDROMEDER. 
Genus Enxrantuvs, Lour.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 588.) 
EnKiAntuvs himalaicus ; frutex v. arbuscula, foliis ad apices ramulorum fascicu- 
latis deciduis membranaceis petiolatis, petiolis pedunculisque pilosis, ovatis 
acuminatis serrulatis pubescentibus demum glabratis, floribus umbellatim con- 
gestis pendulis, pedunculis elongatis 1-rarius 2-floris, corolla urceolato-campanu- 
lata basi zquali, antheris 2-aristatis, capsulis decurvis pentagonis loculicidis 
valvarum marginibus incrassatis, seminibus lineari-oblongis, testa 5-alata, alis 
membranaceis undulatis, 
KE. himalaicus, Hook. f. et Thoms. mm Kew Journ. Bot. vol. vii. p. 125, t. 3. 
Rhodoracee, Griff. Posth. Papers, vol. ii. p. 148, n. 717, and Rhodora deflexa, 
Griff. 1. c. p. 187, n. 969. 
The eastern Asiatic genus Enkianthus presents four 
types of structure which almost indicate as many genera, 
and would do soif the species had not been united by habit, 
and if the characters were associated, instead of applying 
each to one species only. The original H. quinqueflorus of 
China (tab. nost. 1649) has subumbellate drooping flowers, 
as in our plant, but the corolla has five swellings at the 
base, and the capsules are erect. H. japonicus (tab. 5822), 
the second type, has also subumbellate but spreading 
flowers, and the corolla has a contracted mouth and five 
much larger swellings at the base, but the capsules are quite 
erect ; and, lastly, there is a third, also a Japanese type (L. 
Meisteria of Siebold and Zuccarini), with racemose flowers, 
and the deflexed capsules and corolla of the £. himalaicus, 
but with the lobes of the latter laciniate: this last has not 
yet been introduced into cultivation. 
Enkianthus himalaicus was discovered by the late Dr. 
Griffith in Bhotan, at an elevation of 8000 to 10,000 feet 
above the sea, a fact not known to me when I published 
the species as a discovery of my own, the Griffithian collec- 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1879. 
