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Clafs and Order. 
DecaNnDRIA MonocoyNias 
Generic Charaéver. 
Cal. parvus, perfiftens. Cor. campanulata, limbo 5-fido, 
Nettaria fovee §, bafi corolle excavate. Axthere bicornes. 
Bacca? 5-locularis. Semina plurima, receptaculo centrali inferta. 
Specific Charaéier and Synonym. 
ENKIANTHUS quinquefora; foliis ovato-oblongis acuminatis, 
_ braéteis plurimis deciduis: externis rotundatis internis 
cymbeformibus. _ 
ENKIANTHUS quinqueflora. Lour. Coch. Chin. p. 276. 
TSIAU TSUNG. Stnenjium. 
Desc. Stem fhrubby: branches {mooth reddifh, bearing the 
flowers in an-umbel at the extremities. Leaves apparently deci- 
duous, with here and there one remaining through the winter, 
oblong-elliptical, acuminate, decurrent down the footftalk, 
reticulate-veined, fhining green on the upper furface and pale 
underneath, veins depreffed on both fides and frequently red on | 
the under. Before the appearance of the flower the duds are 
covered with obtufe, roundifh fcales; and juft before the 
flowers appear the internal fcales burft forth, are much longer 
and canoe-fhaped of a very bright red colour. The fame 
braéies covered the buds which contain leaves only, exciting 
vain hopes of a fucceffion of flowers, where not a rudiment was 
to be feen. From Lourerro’s defeription, perhaps badly 
underftood, it has been furmifed that our plant is a different 
_ {pecies from his, but as there are fpecimens in the Bankfian 
Herbarium, fent from Macao, by Mr. Haxron, under the 
name of Ts1au tTsuNG, which agree exactly with ours, no 
doubt can remain of the identity of thefe plants. That 
the brattes are naturally and not accidentally deciduous, is 
confirmed by two drawings made in China, in both of _— 
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