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Tas. 6806. 
NEVIUSA ALABAMENSIS. 
Native of Alabama. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacrz.—Tribe Sprrmacex. 
Genus Neviusa, A. Gray; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 613.) 
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Neviusa alabamica ; frutex ramulis gracilibus puberulis, foliis alternis breviter 
petiolatis ovatis v. oblongo-ovatis acuminatis basi rotundatis serratis v. dupli- 
ceato-serrulatis membranaceis utrinque puberulis, stipulis parvis liberis, floribus 
subpaniculatim corymbosis, pedunculis pedicellisque gracillimis, sepalis foliaceis 
inciso-serratis, petalis 0, staminibus multiseriatis sepalis longioribus capil- 
laribus niveis, antheris parvis, carpellis 2-4 parvis sericeis stylis capillaribus, 
stigmatibus obtusis. 
N. alabamensis, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad, Nat. Sc. vol. iv. p. 99; Mem. 
Acad, N.S. vol. vi. p. 374, t. 30; Chapm. Fl. S. U. States, p. 121; Baill. 
Hist. Pl. vol. i. p. 393; Maximov. Adnot. de Spireac. p. 139. 
Neviusa is one of the rarest plants of the United States, 
being, in so far as hitherto known, confined to the State of 
Alabama, and there to some shaded cliffs near Tuscaloosa, 
where it was discovered by the Rey. R. D. Nevius, after 
whom Gray named the genus. The affinities of the genus 
have been variously considered. A Gray, its founder, 
referred it to the neighbourhood of Kerria in the tribe 
Rubew, from which tribe, as defined by me in the ‘“* Genera 
Plantarum,”’ both these genera differ in their solitary ovules, 
and I placed both in the tribe Spirwacee of LRosacex. 
Maximovicz, in his able and elaborate revision of the 
Spireacee, rejects both from this latter group, and agrees 
with Gray in referring them to Rubee. 
Neviusa flowered at Kew in May, 1883; the plant was 
nailed against a wall exposed to the Hast, and presented a 
very beautiful appearance from the abundance of its snow- 
white feathery blossoms. Considering the climate and 
position of its native country, I should doubt its being 
hardy. It has been received at Kew from several con- 
tributors, notably a living plant from Professor Sargent, 
MARCH Ist, 1885. 
