NEW SPECIES OF HIMALAYAN ERICES. 125 
a corolla with an angled tube and five ovate, large laciniw, ovate in- 
cumbent anthers, a very pilose germen, a style longer than the corolla, 
and a thick quinquefid spreading stigma, can hardly be a congener of 
E. quinqueflorus, whether or no the fruit be, as Loureiro doubtingly 
suggests (from the immature specimen), a berry with many extremely 
minute rounded seeds. 
The following is a description of the Himalayan species :— 
1. Enkyanthus Himalaicus, Hook. fil. et Thoms.; frutex v. arbuscula, 
foliis ad apices ramulorum fasciculatis deciduis membranaceis peti- 
olatis ovatis acuminatis serrulatis pubescentibus demum glabratis, 
floribus versus apices ramulorum corymboso-congestis pendulis v 
nutantibus, pedunculis 1-2-floris, corolla late campanulata basi :equali, 
antheris longe aristatis, capsulis ex apice pedunculi erecti pendulis late 
ovatis pentagonis loculieide 5-valvibus, valvis margine incrassatis, 
seminibus lineari-oblongis, testa 5-alata, alis membranaceis undu- 
latis, embryone filiformi. (Tas. IIT.) 
Has. In Himalaya orientali temperata; vallibus humidis Sikkim, alt. 
8-10,000 ped. J. D. Hooker. Fl. May; fr. October? 
Frutex 8-20-pedalis, vage ramosus, ramis gracilibus teretibus nudis; 
ramulis lateralibus ad apicem tantum foliiferis. Folia congesta, 11-23 
unc. longa, petiolo gracili, lzete viridia, juniora rubra, gemmis peru- 
latis parvis vernatione tecta; petiolo levi v. superne tuberculato ; 
folia bractezeformia propria nulla. Pedunculi 6—10, axillares, nutan- 
tes v. penduli, ob folia congesta quasi terminales, umbellam spuriam 
- formantes, unciales, glaberrimi v. puberuli. Sepala parva, lanceolato- 
-subulata. Corolla pallida, rubro et albo variegata, tubo lato basi 
obscure 5-gono et bullato, lobis parvis patentibus. Stamina 10, 
alterna paullo.breviora; filamentis pubescentibus basi incrassatis. 
Ovarium 5-gonum, pubescens ; stylo gracili, stigmate simplici. Ovula 
plurima, e placenta crassa apicem versus loculi axi adnata pendula, 
anatropa. Capsula 1 unc. longa, valvis coriaceis ad medium solutis. = 
Semina pallida. 3 
This is by no-means so handsome a plant as the Æ. eu 
from its scanty, paler green, deciduous foliage, the absence of any 
proper scarlet floral leaves, and the smaller and paler flowers. It fur- 
ther differs from that plant in the pendulous fruit; the capsules in E. - 
quinqueflorus, which are of exactly the same structure, being erect. It is- 
not an uncommon Sikkim plant in the central regions of that country, 
