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~ENKIANTHUS quinqueflorus. 
Red-edged Enkianthus. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. Erices. g 
ENKIANTHUS Lour.—Cal. persistens, 5-fidus. Corolla campanu- 
lata, 5-fida, facilé 5-partibilis, basi foveis 5 nectariferis calycis segmentis — 
alternis. Stamina basi corolle inserta, pilosa. Anthere bicornes. Ovarium 
5-loculare, polyspermum. Stigma simplex. Capsula.——Frutices Chine, 
foliis sparsis, floribus terminalibus, bracteis plurimis coloratis circumdatis. 
Flores rosei. 
E. quinqueflorus; foliis planis ovalibus acutis marginatis longé petiolatis, 
_ sepalis ovato-lanceolatis oyarii longitudine, foveis diaphanis coloratis. 
E. quinqueflorus. our. fl. cochinch, 1.339? Sims Bot. Mag. 1649, 
Melidora pellucida. Salesbury in Hort. Trans. 2.156. 
Suffrutex ramis nudis, erectis, subsimplicibus, ad apicem foliosis. Folia 
ovalia, utringue acuta, plana, glabra, longé petiolata, ad margines et venas 
rubra. Umbelle terminales, inter bracteas, et folia nova, numerosas, pallidas, 
Spatulato-lanceolatas, flores equantes. Flores solitarti, penduli in longos pe- 
dicellos clavatos, rosei. Calyx 5-fidus, laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, aristatis, 
glaberrimis. Corolla monopetala, campanulata, humerosa, 5-dentata, den- 
tebus obtusiusculis, paululum ciliatis, ad basin foveis 5 nectariferis, diaphanis, 
Coccineis, intus levigatis. Stamina 10, dimidiam corolle longitudine, basi 
corolle inserta, basibus dilatatis approximatis. Filamenta é latd basi subulata, 
' pilosa. Antheree glabre, bicornes, poro GES apicis dehiscentes. Ovarium 
oblongum, 5-loculare, polyspermum. Stylus persistens, jiliformis, corolle 
longitudine. Stigma simplex. 
The genus Lnkianthus was instituted by Loureiro with a 
character which, from the singular manner in which that 
worthy Botanist understood the parts of fructification, mis- 
taking coloured bracteze for calyx, young leaves for corolla, 
and the real flower for the floscule of a compound agere- 
gation of florets, was quite unintelligible to Willdenow, who 
undertook the task of publishing a German edition of the 
Flora Cochinchinensis. When, however, the plant of which 
the annexed figure is a representation first produced its 
flowers in England, in the year 1814, the identity between 
it and the Hnkianthus was recognised by the learned Bo- 
tanists under whose care the Banksian Herbarium was at 
that time placed; and the identification was not prevented 
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