Tas. 4931. 
RIBES supvestitum. 
Glandular Californian Gooseberry. 
Nat. Ord. GrossuLARIEZ.—PENTANDRIA DIGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-lobus, laciniis plus minus coloratis. Petala 5, parva, 
albida, lutea vel rubra. Stamina 5, rarissime 6, filamentis liberis. Sfyli 1-2 et 
3-4-fidi. Bacca unilocularis, receptaculis lateralibus. Semina arillata (an in 
omnibus ?), oblonga, subcompressa. 
Rises (§ Grossularia) subvestitum ; glanduloso-pubescens, ramis rigidis, foliis 
cordatis tri-quinquelobis crenato-dentatis supra glabris subtus subpilosis, 
spinis stipularibus 3—4 subulatis mediocribus, petiolis glanduloso-hirsutis, 
pedunculis 1—3-floris pilosis (pilis glandulosis) bibracteatis, bracteis glandu- 
loso-marginatis, calycis tubo ovarium glandulosum superante laciniis hirsu- 
tis oblongis reflexis, staminibus petala duplo superantibus glabris. 
Ripes subvestitum. Hook. et Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 346. Walpers, Re- 
pert. Bot. Syst. v. 2. p. 357. * 
A native of California, where it was first detected by the 
naturalists of Captain (now Admiral) Beechey’s surveying voy- 
age; and it has since been sent by Mr. Lobb to Messrs. Veitch 
and Sen, Exotic Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea, where it bears 
its flowers in the open ground in April and May, and is rather 
a striking plant, from the size of the flowers and deep purple- 
coloured calyx, with pale, erect petals, and the inserted stamens, 
which give a Fuchsia-like character to their flowers. 
Drscr. A shrub, with harsh, rigid branches, and these beset 
with stipulary spines, three or four growing together and spread- 
ing, subulate, of moderate length. Leaves small, cordate, three- 
to five-lobed, the lobes crenate, glabrous above, downy beneath, 
Sometimes glandular. Pefzoles hairy, the hairs mixed with pe- 
dicellated glands. Peduncles bearing two or three drooping 
flowers ; pedicels clothed with stalked glands, and bearing two 
opposite, oval, concave Jracts, which are glandular at the mar- 
gin. Inferior ovary, with copious glands. Ze of the calye 
AUGUST Ist, 1856. 
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