Neillia
(named after Patrick Neill, of Edinburgh, secretary of the Caledonian Horticultural Society, in the early part of this century). SYN. Adenilenia. ORD. Rosaceae. A genus comprising four or five species of hardy branching shrubs, inhabiting Northern India and Java, Manchuria, and North America. Flowers white, racemose or paniculate, rather large; calyx persistent; tube campanulate or broadly turbinate. Leaves simple, variously lobed and toothed. The species here described are probably the only ones introduced. They form excellent plants for shrubberies; the two last-named, however, require a little protection in winter. Almost any soil will suit them, and propagation is effected by nearly ripe cuttings, inserted in sand, with a hand glass over them; or by seeds.
N. amurensis (Amur). fl. white; filaments of stamens reddish. Summer. l. subcordate-orbiculate, three to five-lobed; lobes acute, sharply doubly serrated, with a thin white stellate pubescence beneath. h. 4ft. to 7ft. Amurland. A compact-growing, handsome shrub. (R. G. 489, under name of Spiraea amurensis.) N. opulifolia (Guelder Rose-leaved).* fl. white, disposed in umbel-like corymbs, and succeeded by purplish, membranous pods. June. l. roundish, palmately somewhat three-lobed and heart-shaped. h. 5ft. North America, 1690. SYN. Spiraea opulifolia.
N. o. aurea (golden).* This only differs from the type in the fine golden-yellow tint retained almost throughout the season by the leaves. N. rubiflora (Bramble-flowered). fl. twice the size of those of N. thyrsiflora; racemes terminal, solitary; calyx furnished with pedicellate glands. l. cordate, three-lobed, acuminated, doubly serrated; stipules entire. h. 6ft. Nepaul.
N. thyrsiflora (thyrse-flowered). fl., racemes spicate, disposed in a terminal thyrse; calyx silky. l. cordate-ovate, three-lobed, doubly serrated. h. 6ft. Nepaul.