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ENKIANTHUS RETICULATUS. 
(neTTED-LEAVED ENKIANTHUS.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ERICEiE. 
Generic Character. — Calyx five-cleft, furnished with coloured hracteas. Corolla campanulate, with a 
five-cleft limb, and with five pits at the base of the tube. Stamens ten, inserted in the base of the 
corolla; filaments toothed, pilose at the apex. Style filiform * Berry five-celled, many-seeded. 
— Don's System of Gardening and Botany. 
Specific Character.— Plant shrubby. Leaves oblong, acute, reticulate, on short petioles. Corolla 
of a pale blush colour ; limb five-cleft, segments reflexed. Nectary five-celled, containing a melli- 
ferous secretion. 
For an opportunity of furnishing our readers with the accompanying figure of 
this extremely beautiful plant, we are obliged to Messrs. Lucombe, Pince, and 
Co., of the Exeter Nursery, in whose conservatory it flowered during the whole of 
last December and January, and from whence our drawing was taken in a very 
superior manner, by Miss Flood, an accomplished young lady of that city. 
There is an extraordinary neatness and elegance in the structure of its flowers, 
which is greatly heightened by the brilliant gem-like appearance of the nectary, 
(copiously filled with honey,) and which causes it to be much admired by all 
cultivators of rare and beautiful plants. In its native country, likewise, it is held 
in the highest esteem, amounting even to veneration; branches of it when in 
flower (which happens at the commencement of their year) being selected and 
placed in the finest porcelain vases in their temples, and in the houses of their 
principal mandarins. 
Much confusion appears to have existed amongst botanists, and in botanical 
publications, relative to this species, and it has been most strangely confounded 
with E. quinqueflorus ; from which, however, it very widely differs in many 
material points, and perhaps in no particular is the difference more conspicuous 
