Tas. 8094. 
RIBES visurniFrouivum. 
Lower California and Sunta Catalina Island. 
SaxIFRAGACE&. Tribe RIBESIEa. 
Rives, Linn.; Benth. e¢ Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol.i. p 654. 
Ribes viburnifolium, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. vol. xvii. p. 202; species 
distinctissima, sempervirens, resinoso-punctata, foliis ovato-orbicularibus 
vel ovato-ellipticis nee cordatis nec plicatis coriaceis, floribus parvis et 
calyce brevissimo. 
Frutex sempervirens, diffuse ramosus, dense resinoso-punctatus, novellis parce 
pilosis. Folia sat conferta, petiolata, coriacea, nitida, ovato-orbicularia, 
vel ovato-elliptica, 3~1? poll. longa, 3-14 poll. lata, utrinque rotundata, 
supra medium breviter dentata vel rarius leviter lobata, interdum subtus 
basi parce pilosa ; petioli 3-3 poll. longi, graciles, breviter pilosi. Racemi 
terminales, corymbiformes, 1-1} poll. longi, laxiflori, breviter pilosi; 
bractez et bracteole scariose, caduce ; pedicelli filiformes, circiter 2 poll. 
longi. Calycis rosei tubus primum turbinatus, demum ellipsoideus, basi 
parce pilosus; limbus patens, lobis suborbicularibus circiter 1 lin. diam. 
Petala minima, viridescentia, late obovata vel subquadrata. Stamina 5, 
calycis lobis breviora, ut petala margini disci lati plani inserta. Stylus 
staminibus paulum brevior, 2-fidus. Baccse rubrex, ellipsoides, circiter 
; poll. longze, ¢ poll. late, parce resinoso-punctatez. 
This well-marked species was originally described from 
material collected near All Saints’ Bay (Todos Santos 
Bay) in the northern part of Lower California. It is “so 
peculiar,” Gray says, that the acute collectors did not 
recognize the genus. Yet the flowers have all the 
characters of the tibesia section, and the conspicuous 
glands of the leaves, young shoots, pedicels, &c., are just 
like those of R. nigrum.” In the Kew Herbarium are 
specimens from Santa Catalina Island, Southern California, 
collected by Mrs. Blanche Trask, who states that the species 
is frequent on moist slopes and in canons. 
The Kew plant which supplied the material for the 
accompanying plate was raised from seeds collected in 
Santa Catalina Island, and received from the Harvard 
Botanic Garden in 1897. It is trained on a south wall in 
the Herbaceous Department, and has now reached a height 
of 7 feet. It flowers early in March. The berries persist 
to the succeeding year. 
Descr.—A straggling evergreen shrub, densely resin- 
dotted, sparingly pubescent on the young branches. 
SepremMBeEr Ist, 1906. 
