Hsing-shan

English Etymology From en cmn 興山 en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Hsing¹-shan¹. Proper noun 1 1 en Xingshan, Hubei en 1907 Report for the Year 1907 on the Chemical, Metal and Mining Industries of the Consular District of Lyons https://books.google.com/books?id=43M8AQAAIAAJ 931763659 23 Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts. en 1924 w:Ernest Henry Wilson THE RHODODENDRONS OF HUPEH Journal of the Arnold Arboretum https://archive.org/details/biostor-176584/ V 0004-2625 934849827 17 https://archive.org/details/biostor-176584/page/n8/ In Hupeh this Rhododendron is quite rare and is not known to grow south of the Yangtsze River. It is only known to me from two or three localities in the Hsing-shan district where it grows in thin woods among rocks between 5000 and 7000 ft. altitude. en 1947 A. C. Smith Sargentia: A Continuation of the Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003541528/ Jamaica Plain, Mass. 1039752109 119 https://archive.org/details/mobot31753003541528/page/119/ In my opinion the entity discussed above is better referred to S. pubescens than to S. sphenanthera, although in the degree of foliage-pubescence it is somewhat intermediate. In their original discussion of this variety, Rehder & Wilson list as a paratype Henry 6447 (GH, K), from Hsing-shan, western Hupeh. Translations Xingshan Further reading en 1952 Hsingshan or Hsing-shan Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 787 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/787/ 3