BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
Studies in the Botany of the southeastern United States.—VI, 
By Joun K. SMALL. 
RIBEs CURVATA n. sp. 
Perennial, glabrate, bright green, armed with subulate spines, 
which are about 4-6 mm. long. Stem diffusely branched through- 
out, 6-8 dm. long, clothed with a loose papery exfoliating bark ; 
branches purplish ; branchlets reddish, wiry, like the branches re- 
curved, or conspicuously drooping; leaves suborbicular, I—2 cm. 
in diameter, three-lobed, the lobes toothed, the terminal lobe often 
mucronate; petioles slender, as long as or shorter than the blade 
of the leaf, usually somewhat villous; flowers small but con- 
spicuous, solitary; peduncles 7-8 mm. long; pedicels twisted, 
nearly as long as the peduncles, subtended by two 3-lobed ciliate 
bractlets; calyx-tube papillose; calyx-segments linear or linear- 
Spatulate, 6 mm. long, whitish, reflexed and recurved, strongly 
nerved toward the middle, the edges hyaline, obtuse, one usually 
notched at the apex; petals oblong, 1.5 mm. long, white, obtuse, 
with lateral teeth and one or two nerves; stamens conspicuous, 
7 mm. long, erect; filaments villous; anthers red; style some- 
What shorter than the filaments, villous; berry globose, 6-8 mm. 
in diameter, crowned by the persistent stamens. 
A low, diffuse shrub, growing on the slopes of Stone Moun- 
tain, Georgia; found in flower during the first two weeks of May, 
and in fruit in the first week of July, 1895. 
_ CUPHEA pRocumBENS Cav. Ic. 4: 55. pl. 380. 1797. 
3 Mr. A. M. Huger has sent me specimens of this showy Cu- 
_ phea from naturalized plants found at Horse Cove, Macon county, 
North Carolina, altitude about 800 meters. The plant has escaped 
from gardens. _ \ eee epee ae 
