ERICACEAE. 281 
ENKIANTHUS. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Shrubs: deciduous. Twigs sub- 
verticillate, slender, 3-sided or 
rounded, often reddish: pith 
rather small, roundish, continu- 
ous. Buds minute, sunken and in 
the notch of the leaf-scar, solitary, 
sessile, indistinctly scaly, the ter- 
minal flower-buds large, ovoid 
and with some half-dozen mucro- 
nate scales. lLeaf-scars minute, 
crescent-shaped or triangular, low: 
bundle-trace 1, minute, round: 
stipule-scars lacking. The small 
oblong or ovoid 5-celled few-seeded 
capsules are present in winter. 
Winter-characters of Enkian- 
thus japonicus are given’ by 
Shirasawa, 284, pl. 13. 
Like many of our common na- 
tive Ericaceae, among them the 
dwarf blueberries which cover 
barren hills in the Eastern States, these Asiatic species color 
brilliantly in autumn. 
Pedicels straight: capsules subglobose: sepals ovate. 
(1). E. subsessilis. 
Pedicels bent: capsules oblong: sepals elongated. 
(2). E.campanulatus. 
