208 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
Specimens examined: 
Lower California: San Quintin, Palmer, 1898 (no, 741); San Julia Canyon and 
Las Huevitas, Brandegee, 1889; Knsenada, Anthony, 1897 (no. 182). 
Ribes pringlei Rose, sp. nov. 
? Ribes campanulatum H. & B. in Roem. & Schult. Syst. 5: 500. 1819, not Moench. 
1794. 
A bush 15 to 30 em. high, unarmed; branches reddish, glabrous and shining; 
leaves small, 2em. long, 3-lobed, the lobes acute, doubly toothed, above becoming 
nearly glabrous but with some fine pubescence and more or less thickly studded 
with short glandular hairs; beneath pale, strongly nerved, becoming glabrate, but 
more or less thickly set with nearly sessile glands; petioles glandular and pubescent, 
broadened at base, shorter than the blade; racemes solitary in the axils, 2.5 to 5 em. 
long, somewhat curved, bracteate; lower bracts more or less leaf-like, more or less 
glandular; pedicels 3 to4 mm, long, jointed just below the flower; ealyx glandular 
without, tubular, the tubes 8 mim. long, the lobes about 4 mm. long, acute or acumi- 
nate; petals much shorter than the lobes of the calyx, nearly as broad as long; 
stamens inciuded; anthers glandular at tip; ovary glandular-pubescent; mature fruit 
not seen. 
Collected by Mr. C. G. Pringle on the Sierra de Ajusco, altitude 3,000 meters, 
April 16, 1898 (no 6811, type); at the same station, J. N. Rose, June 18, 1901 (no. 
5922), in the Valley of Mexico by C. G. Pringle, 1897 (no. 7210a); and by J. N, 
Rose and Jos. H. Painter near Eslava, Valley of Mexico, September 17, 1903 (no. 
7122). 
Ribes neglectum Rose, sp. nov. 
A bush 120 to 156 cm, high, unarmed; branches dull, grayish; young pranches 
bearing stalked glands and a short close pubescence; leaves nearly orbicular in out- 
line, 3 to 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse, doubly toothed, paler beneath, the pubescence 
on the nerves of soft interspersed with gland-tipped hairs, slightly cordate at base 
with a broad open sinus; petiole with. stiff gland-tipped hairs and soft pubescence; 
racemes 5 to 12-fHlowered, erect or ascending at first, drooping in fruit; bracts rather 
conspicuous, ovate, toothed or entire; pedicels 3 to 6 mm. long, bibracteolate at base 
of flower; flower 15 mm. long; ovary bearing some gland-tipped hairs, otherwise 
glabrous; calyx tube hairy without, slightly longer than the lobes; lobes broadly 
ovate, obtuse; petals broad, crenately toothed; fruit said to be black when ripe, 
edible. 
Collected by Dr. Edward Palmer at Alvarez, near San Luis Potosi, September 5 to 
10, 1902 (no, 113, type), also in 1904 (no, 190), and at the same place by Parry and 
Palmer 24 years before (no. 232). The latter specimen has since remained as an 
undetermined Ribes. Mr. Hemsley in the Biologia so listed it, associating it with 
Bourgeau’s no. 302 taken up elsewhere in this paper as R. rugosum. The sheet in 
the Gray Herbarium of Parry and Palmer’s no. 232 contains two specimens, the 
fruiting one being the above species, while the flowering one suggests R. pringlei; 
but whether it is that species or still another undescribed one is hard to determine 
with the material in hand. 
Ribes ceriferum Coville & Rose, sp. nov. 
A bush, | to 5 meters high; bark of old branches dark brown, of young branches light 
brown, the latter somewhat pubescent and more or less glandular; leaves orbicular in 
outline, 2 to 4 em, in diameter, slightly 3-lobed, the lobes broad and usually rounded, 
pale and somewhat puberulent on the veins beneath, dark green, somewhat shining 
and nearly glabrous above, both surfaces abundantly provided with sessile exudat- 
ing glands, somewhat doubly serrate, each tooth tipped by a large gland; raceme 
few-flowered (probably); calyx tube somewhat pubescent; anthers tipped by a 
depressed gland; fruiting pedicels 5 mun. long; fruit black, glabrous. 
