Hsing-shan

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 興山／兴山 (Xīngshān) Wade–Giles romanization: Hsing¹-shan¹.

Proper noun

Hsing-shan

1. Alternative form of Xingshan, Hubei
   • 1907, Report for the Year 1907 on the Chemical, Metal and Mining Industries of the Consular District of Lyons‎^[1], →OCLC, page 23:

     Many valuable medicines are produced in Hupei, particularly in the Shih-nan Prefecture and in the Fang and Hsing-shan districts.

   • 1924, Ernest Henry Wilson, “THE RHODODENDRONS OF HUPEH”, in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum‎^[2], volume V, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17:

     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.

   • 1947, A. C. Smith, Sargentia: A Continuation of the Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University‎^[3], Jamaica Plain, Mass., →OCLC, 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 — see Xingshan

Further reading

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Hsingshan or Hsing-shan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 787, column 3