Neillia uekii Nakai

Shrubs erect, to 2 m tall. Branchlets red-brown, slender, slightly pubescent when young, glabrescent; buds purple, ovoid, with 3 or 4 scales pubescent at margin. Stipules ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, herbaceous, margin serrate, apex acute; petiole 5–10 mm, densely pubescent; leaf blade ovate to elliptic-ovate, rarely triangular-ovate, 3–6 × 2–4 cm, abaxially slightly pubescent on veins, adaxially glabrous, base rounded to truncate, margin pinnately lobed, doubly serrate, apex long acuminate or caudate. Racemes 4–9 cm, 10–25-flowered; peduncle and pedicels slightly pubescent and stellate hairy. Flowers 5–6 mm in diam.; pedicel 3–4 mm. Hypanthium urceolate-campanulate, 3–4 mm, abaxially pubescent. Sepals triangular, slightly shorter than hypanthium, pubescent on both surfaces, margin entire, apex acuminate. Petals white, spatulate, ca. 4 mm. Stamens ca. 10. Ovary ovoid, pubescent along adaxial suture and at apex; ovules 2. Follicles long ovoid. Seeds ovoid.

SE Liaoning (Changdian) [Korea].

Neillia millsii Dunn.