ROSACEAE. — NEILLIA 435 



3 m., flowers rose-pink); without precise locality, alt. 1300-3000 m., 

 July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3558). 



Neillia longiracemosa is easily distinguished from N. rubiflora G. Don by the 

 caducous bracts of the slenderer racemes, the narrower cylindric-campanulate 

 calyx-tube short-pilose inside, the longer calyx-teeth which exceed the petals, the 

 less numerous stamens and by the not distinctly 3-lobed leaves. The length of 

 the racemes in the specimens collected by Wilson varies from 4-5 cm. and on 

 some of them are found racemes up to 15 cm. in length, as stated by Hemsley in 

 his description of this species. 



NeilUa thibetica Franchet in Jour, de Bot. V. 45 (1891). 



Neillia velutina Franchet, 1. c. in textu (1891). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, upland thickets, alt. 2600 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4220^; bush 2 m. high); Mupin, alt. 1600-2600 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4220; bush 1-2 m. high). 



Judging from our specimens which are in fruit A^. longiracemosa is closely allied 

 to this species and perhaps is best referred to it as a variety with glabrous leaves, 

 but as long as I have seen no flowering specimens, it seems best to keep them 

 separate, though I cannot find any other difference between fruiting specimens 

 of the two species than the pubescence of the leaves which seems variable and is 

 denser in No. 4220" from Tachien-lu than in the Mupin specimen. 



Neillia ribesioides Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex 1-2-metralis; ramuli leviter tortuosi, hornotini minute ac- 

 cumbenti-villosuli, flavo-brunnei, annotini brunnei, vetustiores griseo- 

 brunnei, cortice fibroso solubili; gemmae peruHs pluribus rotundatis 

 atro-fuscis villoso-ciliolatis, glabris v. dorso minute pubescentibus. 

 Folia triangulari-ovata, basi leviter cordata v. fere truncata, acu- 

 minata, 2-5 cm. longa et 1.5-4.5 cm. lata, leviter inciso-lobata lobis 

 brevibus subduplicato-serratis dentibus obtusiuscuHs v. acutis, supra 

 sparse accumbenti-pilosa, subtus ad venas densius, in facie sparse 

 subaccumbenti-villosa, nervis utrinque 4-6 rectis; petioU pubescentes, 

 4-8 mm. longi; stipulae oblongae v. lanceolatae, obtusae v. acutae, 

 integrae v. pauci-serratae, 4-5 mm. longae. Racemi solitarii, cum pe- 

 dunculo 6-10 mm. longo 2.5-6 cm, longi, rhachi minute pubescente, 

 bracteis lanceolatis sparse pubescentibus plerumque ante anthesin 

 caducis; pedicelli fere glabri, 1-2 mm. longi; calycis tubus fere cylin- 

 dricus, 6-7 mm., rarius tantum 4.5 mm. longus et 2.5-3 mm. diam., 

 rubescens, extus glaber v. adpresse minute sericeus, intus parte inferiore 

 excepta laxe pilosus; dentes ovati, acutiusculi v. subito breviter mucro- 

 nulati, 2 mm. longi, intus villosuli; petala suborbiculari-rhombica, 



