NEILLIA NEMOPANTHUS 95 



point ; sharply, often doubly toothed ; the base- mostly heart-shaped ; dark 

 green and smooth above, the bright green under-surface downy on the chief 

 veins ; stalk | to ^ in. long. Flowers in a downy raceme, terminating the 

 shoot, or springing from the axils of the uppermost leaves. Each flower is 

 about 1 in. long ; the calyx bell-shaped, five-lobed, silky hairy, the lobes 

 lance-shaped and pointed ; petals roundish ovate, white. Fruit consisting of 

 one pod enclosed by the persistent calyx, and containing four to eight seeds. 



Native of Sikkim and the Khasia Hills, where it is common. It suffers 

 during hard winters, and is said to prefer a semi-shaded as well as a sheltered 

 position. Allied to N. sinensis (g.v.). 



NEILLIA SINENSIS. 



N. TORREYI, S. Watson. 



(Garden and Forest, 1889, fig. 84 ; Physocarpus Torreyi, Maximowicz.} 



A dwarf deciduous bush, about 2 ft. high in a wild state, with erect, much- 

 branched steins. Leaves f to i^ ins. long, roundish ovate, three-lobed ; the 

 lobes irregularly and doubly toothed, sometimes very downy beneath, some- 

 times only slightly so. Flowers J in. diameter, of a clear or slightly rose- 

 tinted white, produced in early June in few-flowered corymbs f to i^ ins. 

 across. Fruit downy, usually composed of two pods cohering for more than 

 half their length, but sometimes only one ; each contains one obovoid seed. 



Native of the Rocky Mountains o Colorado up to elevations of 9000 ft. 

 It is a pretty little shrub with small leaves often lobed and toothed, like a 

 Ribes. Its dwarf habit, small leaves, and few downy seed-vessels well 

 distinguish it in the Physocarpus group. 



NEMOPANTHUS CANADENSIS, De Candolle. MOUNTAIN 

 HOLLY. AQUIFOLIACE/E. 



A deciduous shrub, 3 to 10 ft. high, with smooth young wood. 

 Leaves alternate, oval, oblong or ovate, thin, not (or very slightly) toothed, 

 tapered more abruptly towards the base than the apex, quite smooth; 

 i to 2\ ins. long, \ to ij ins. wide; stalk J to J in. long. Flowers often 



