Tas. 7059. 
ENKIANTHUS campanvnatvs. 
Native of Japan. 
Nat. Ord. Ertckx.—Tribe ANDROMEDER. 
Genus Enxrantuvs, Lour. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 588.) 
ENKIANTHUS campanulatus; arboreus, ramis verticillatis, foliis petiolatis 
ellipticis utrinque acutis argute serrulatis apice callosis, racemis sub- 
corymbiformibus nutantibus, pedicellis pubescentibus pedunculum supe- 
rantibus, sepalis lanceolatis, corolla cylindraceo-campanulatz lobisbrevibus 
rotundatis, genitalibus inclusis, filamentis villosulis, antheris glabris apice 
reflexo-bisetosis, ovario glabro, capsulis e pedunculo deflexo erectis, breviter 
cylindraceis, seminibus scobiformibus triquetris lamellato-cristatis. 
Andromeda campanulata, Miguel in Ann. Mus, Lugd. Bat. vol. i. p. 31; 
Prolus, Fl. Jap. p. 94. Maximovicz in Mel. Biol. vol. viii. p. 618 ; in Regel 
Gartenfl, vol, xxii. (1873), p. 3, t. 747. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Plant. Jap. 
vol. i. p. 284. 
The genus Enkianthus, of which six or seven species 
are known, is peculiar to the warm temperate and sub- 
tropical regions of Eastern Asia, extending in the extreme 
east from North Japan to South China, whilst to the west 
it is confined to the Eastern Himalaya. No doubt our 
ignorance botanically of Western China accounts for its 
non-appearance hitherto between such widely remote 
longitudes as the Eastern Himalaya (Long. 90 E.), where 
E. himalaicus (Tab. 6460) was discovered, and H. quin- 
queflorus (Tab. 1649), which is a native of South China 
(in Long. 115 E.). : 
Asa genus Enkianthus differs from Andromeda techni- 
cally only in the seeds, which are large with a lamellate 
winged testa, whilst in the latter genus they are small 
with an appressed smooth testa. On the other hand, in 
habit these genera widely differ, Hnkianthus being really 
much more closely allied to Pieris, in which the spurs of 
the anthers are inserted at the back of the anther close 
to the insertion of the filament. Of Hnkianthus itself there 
are two principal groups; one, of which H. japonicus (Tab. 
5822) and H. quinqueflorus (Tab. 1649) are the representa- 
“June Ist, 1889. 
