124 NEW SPECIES OF HIMALAYAN ERICEJE. 
licari tenui inferne villosiusculo basi comoso, stigmate continuo subu- 
lato basi obsolete incrassato.— Drummond, coll. vi. n. 213. 
This resembles D. armata in the leaves, but it is essentially distinct 
from it in having shorter flowers, a thicker stigma, the inner squame 
of the involucre not lingulate, etc., and moreover, the leaves are petio- 
late, thinner, their segments narrower, and less pungent. Mr. Drum- 
mond appears to refer this species to Hemiclidia (Hook. Journ. 1853, 
p. 182). We have not seen the fruit. 
On Enkyanthus Himalaicus and Cassiope selaginoides, two new Species 
of Himalayan Ericee ; by Drs. J. D. Hookzn and T. THomsoy, with 
two Plates (III. and IV.). 
The history of the genus Exkyanthus being very incomplete, we have 
taken the present opportunity of figuring a hitherto undescribed species, 
which possesses tbe further interest of being the first and only one that 
has been found beyond the Chinese dominions, and the only second 
species known of the genus to exist. 
Enkyanthus was founded by Loureiro (Flora Cochinchinensis, vol. i. 
p. 276) on two Chinese plants, of one of which, Æ. biflorus, nothing 
is known but the description; whilst the other, Æ. guingueflorus, has 
long been in cultivation in England, but, from the absence of fruit, has 
not hitherto been referred to its proper position amongst Ericee. Thus 
. . De Candolle places it at the end of the Order, and Endlicher, following 
.. Loureiro's description (in which he ascribes a berry to the genus), places 
it next to drbutus. De Candolle indeed says, “Fructus ex Lour. et 
ex ic. Chinensi. Londini servata, teste Benth., baccatus, ex Lindl. cap-. 
sularis ;" and this opens a question as to whether the two species of Lou- 
reiro may be congeners, which a comparison of his specific characters 
renders still more doubtful. That the E. guinqueflorus of our gardens 
is the type of Loureiro’s genus, so far as the inflorescence is concerned, 
.. .eannot be doubted, both from his description, and from the fact men- 
.. -tioned in the * Botanical Magazine,’ of a Chinese drawing of it, bearing 
. -the name Tsian-tsung, attributed to it by Loureiro; and that this plant 
— has a capsular fruit (as stated by Lindley) is proved by Champion's 
. specimen in the Hookerian Herbarium. The Æ. biflorus of Loureiro, 
again, described as having small, crowded, pilose leaves, a pilose calyx, 
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