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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 

 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, 

 pi. 6; Hitchcock (3), 14; (4), 136, f. 59-63. R. odoratus. 

 Bosemann, 39; Schneider, f. 146. R. phoenicolasius. Schnei- 

 der, f. 146. R. saxatilis. Bosemann, 39. R. trifidus. Shira- 

 sawa, 257. R. villosus. Hitchcock (3), 14; (4), 136, f. 64-68. 



