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alba, calycis dentes paullo superantia; stamina circiter 15, longiora 
dentibus calycis fere aequilonga, antheris purpureis; ovarium glabrum 
apice longe piloso excepto, stylo faucem paullo superante. Fructus 
deest. 
Western Szech'uan: Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, thickets, 
alt. 2300-3000 m., June 21 and September 1908 (No. 2382). 
Neillia ribesioides seems most nearly related to N. sinensis Oliver, which differs 
in its slender pedicels, longer calyx-tube, with longer lanceolate teeth, and in 
the glabrous leaves. Our specimens of Wilson’s No. 2382 contain two branches, 
one with a glabrous calyx-tube which I consider the typical form, and one with a 
somewhat shorter, finely pubescent calyx-tube only 4.5 mm. long. 
Neillia sinensis Oliver in Hooker’s Icon. XVI. 1540 (1886). — Hems- 
ley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 228 (1887). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 
XXIX. 382 (1900). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. Y. 446, fig. 
285 o-p, 286 k? (1905). 
Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 1000- 
2000 m., May 29 and September 1907 (No. 86; bush, 1-2 m. high, 
flowers rosy-pink); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300-2000 m., 
June and September 1907 (No. 189; bush 1.25-2 m. high, flowers pale 
pink); without precise locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 701), 
A. Henry (No. 55543). Szech'uan: A. Henry (No. 5695). Shensi: 
Tai-pei-shan, 1910, W. Purdom (Nos. 1, 467); Tai-pei-shan, July 20, 
1897, G. Giraldi: “In-kia-po,” June 4, 1897, G. Giraldi. Kansu: com- 
mon on mountain sides, valley of the river “Tshiluco,” June 18, 1885, 
G. N. Potanin. 
Many of the specimens differ from the original description in having the calyx- 
tube furnished with long gland-tipped bristles, otherwise the specimens from the 
different provinces are remarkably uniform in foliage and flowers. A specimen 
from Yunnan, however, seems so different that it should be distinguished at least 
as a variety, and its description may be added here. 
Neillia sinensis, var. caudata Rehder, n. var. 
A typo differt foliis manifeste trilobatis longe caudato-acuminatis, majoribus 
ad 11 em. longis, lobis acuminatis, floribus brevius pedicellatis pedicellis 2-3 mm. 
longis, tubo calycis breviore circiter 8 mm. longo glanduloso-setoso. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, east mountains, alt. 2000 m., A. Henry (No. 9669; shrub, 
3 m., flowers pink). A 
In foliage this variety resembles N. thyrsiflora G. Don, which also occurs in 
Yunnan and is represented by Henry’s No. from Szemao, No. 9149 from 
Mengtze and by No. 13653 from south of the River; the flowers, however, 
differ but little from those of N. sinensis. 
There is another specimen of Neillia from Yunnan collected by A. Henry near 
a which represents a new species, the description of which is appended 
re. 
