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-very short and ihe branches very long; calyx densely short- 

 woolly within and without, lobes triangular-ovate and obtuse, a 

 line long, equaling the tube; carpels two or rarely three, flat- 

 tened, not greatly inflated, very acute, ©ne-third inch long, tips 

 widely divergent, dehiscent a little below the middle, appearing 

 to be glutinous hairy but under the lens vitreous shining and 

 very sparsely hairy with long hairs that are more or less stellate; 

 seeds usually one in each carpel, from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 scarcely a line long and with or without a sharp inner edge, 

 nearl}^ acute, smooth, shining and yellow. Other specimens 

 from the same locality have various intermediate leaves as to 

 serration, lobation, and shape, all showing how futile is the 

 attempt to make a character on the leaves. The venation of all 

 the Neilliae is really racemose in threes, and not digitate except 

 by accident. On examining a large number of leaves we find 

 that usually the three primary veins come out at the base of the 

 leaf within one-quarter to two lines of each other racemosely, 

 and only rarel}^ exactly opposite, except in A^. nio)wgyna where 

 it is more common, but this remark as to the racemoseness 

 applies with equal force when there are five apparently digitate 

 veins from the base; in this case the two lateral main veins are 

 branched at base or within a line or two of it. Above the base 

 of the leaf, about four lines, the central vein sends off a pair of 

 secondary veins that are about one-fourth a line to a line apart, 

 and so on. The two lateral main veins branch on the lower side 

 into one or usually two secondary ones, the first near the base, and 

 after that they branch like the main central vein above. The 

 large lateral veinlet is often so near the base of the leaf as to be 

 as near it as the point of separation of the main ones and then is 

 called the fifth vein, but though this can be found in single or a 

 few leaves of a plant it is always less common than the regular 

 form. I have found it on every recognized species of Neillia. 



In my specimens from Bear Creek Canon, near Colorado 

 Springs, the leaves are from rhomboid-ovate to lanceolate, but 

 usually broadly ovate, one inch to three inches long and one- 

 half to two and one-half inches wide; calyx always short- 

 woolly on both sides, cleft two-thirds the way to the base, two 

 and one-half lines long; pedicels glabrous or stellate-woolly; 



