92 ROSACEAE. 
NEILLIA. 
(Family Rosaceae). 
Small loosely branched shrubs: 
deciduous. Twigs slender, zig-zag, 
quickly terete: pith small, light 
brown, continuous. Buds moder- 
ate, often superposed, ovoid, with 
4 about 4 rather loose scales. Leaf- 
) | scars alternate, 2-ranked, rather 
| small, angularly crescent-shaped, 
| slightly raised: bundle-traces 3: 
stipule-scars small, at the upper 
angles of the leaf-scar. 
Neillias are slender spiraea-like 
shrubs with no particular differen- 
tials except in ‘the’ technical 
characters on which the genus is 
segregated. Winter-characters of 
N. thyrsiflora are figured by 
Schneider, f. 71. 
As with Stephanandra, the habit 
of Neillia fits it for blending 
down stiffer shrubbery. 
Bark glabrous, shredding: buds large. N. sinensis. 
Bark not shredding: buds small. (1). N. thyrsiflora. 
Winter-character references to Rubus:—R. caesius. 
Bosemann, 39; Fant, 26—R. fruticosus. Bosemann, 39; 
Fant, 25, f. 22; Ward, 1:202, f. 103.—R. idaeus. Bose- 
mann, 39; Fant, 25, f. 22; Schneider, f. 146; Willkomm, 
6, 37, f. 56.—R. incisus. Shirasawa, 250.—R. Koehleri. Bose- 
mann, 39.—R. occidentalis. Foerste, Botanical Gazette, 20:78, 
pl. 6; Hitchcock (3), 14; (4), 136, f. 59-63.—R. odoratus. 
Bosemann, 39; Schneider, f. 146.—R. phoenicolasius. Schnei- 
der, f. 146.—R. sazxatilis. Bosemann, 39.—R. trifidus. Shira- 
sawa, 257.—R. villosus. Hitchcock (3),:14; (4), 136, f. 64-68. 
