204 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 22 
acutish, reflexed, 34 mm. long, pubescent without; ovary glabrous; petals nearly orbic- 
ular, 1.5 mm, long; berry blue-black, smooth, about 8 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Near Moran, Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION : States of Hidalgo and Queretaro. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mém. Soc. Genéve 353: f, 65. 
27. Ribes rugosum Coville & Rose, in Rose, Contr. U.S. Nat. 
Herb. 8: 300. 1905. 
Ribes grande Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 339. 1905. 
An unarmed sbrub, 2-3.5 m. high, the young shoots glabrous or puberulent, and with 
sessile glands. leaves suborbicular in outline, 3-5 cm. wide, 3-lobed or sometimes 5-lobed, 
rounded, truncate, or cordate at base with an open sinus, glabrous above, pubescent and 
almost glandless beneath, the puberulent and glandular petioles mostly shorter than the 
blades, the lobes obtuse, irregularly crenate-dentate ; base of the petiole sometimes bearing 
stalked glands; racemes drooping, 7-12-flowered, pubescent ; pedicels 3-6 mm. long, pu- 
bescent, mostly shorter than the oblong-laticeolate, pubescent, and glandular bracts ; 
hypanthium pubescent, short-cylindric, about 3.5 mm. long; sepals oblong, greenish, 
obtuse, 2.5-3 mm. long ; petals orbicular, clawed, about 2mm. long; ovary glabrous ; berry 
globose-oblong, smooth, bluish-black. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Santa Fé, Valley of Mexico. 
DISTRIBUTION: States of Mexico and Puebla. 
ILLUSTRATION : Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: fl. 66. 
28. Ribes ciliatum H. & B.; R. & S. Syst. Veg. 5: 500. 1819. 
Ribes jorullense H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 61. 1823. 
An unarmed shrub, 3-5 m. high, the stems sometimes 13 cm. in diameter, the young 
shoots glandular-pubescent. Leaves nearly orbicular in outline, 9 cm. wide or less, deeply 
cordate at the base with a usually closed sinus, 3-5-lobed, the upper surface glabrate or with 
some scattered glandular hairs, the under surface rather densely glandular-pubescent, the 
lobes acute or acutish, finely irregularly dentate, the petioles as long as the blades or 
shorter, densely glandular-pubescent; racemes pendulous, about as long as the leaves, 
about 10-flowered, finely pubescent and glandular; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; bracts oblong- 
lanceolate, mostly longcr than the pedicels, glandular; hypanthium pubescent, short-cylin- 
dric, 4-5 mm. long; sepals oblong, obtusish, greenish-white, 3-4 mm. long, pubescent; 
ovary glabrous; berry globose, glabrous, about 8 mm. in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Not cited. : 
DISTRIBUTION: High mountains of central and southern Mexico. 
29. Ribes chihuahuense Britton, Torreya 7: 102. 1907. 
Branches smooth, gray. Leaves ovate to suborbicular in outline, the blades 2-2.5 cm. 
long, dull dark-green above, pale-green beneath, broadly cuneate to subtruncate at the base, 
3-lobed, glabrous on both sides, papillose above when young, sparingly ciliate on the margin, 
the lobes few-toothed, acutish or obtuse; petioles as long as the blades or shorter, pubescent 
when young ; racemes 3-5-flowered, alittle longer than the leaves, the axis densely pubes- 
cent ; flowers sessile or very nearly so; bracts ovate-elliptic, obtuse, ciliate, 5-7 mm. long; 
hypanthium nearly cylindric, 1 cm. long ; sepals oblong, obtuse, 6-7 mm. long; petals ovate- 
oblong, acute, a little more than half as long as the sepals. 
TyPE Locality: Chihuahua, Mexico, 
DISTRIBUTION : Known only from the type locality. 
30. Ribes aureum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 164. 1814. 
Ribes jasminifiorum Agardh, Sv. Landtbr. Akad. Ann. 9: 143. 1823. 
Ribes flavum Berland. Mém. Soc. Genéve 37: 60. 1826. 
Ribes tenuiflorum Lindl. Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 242, 1828, 
Ribes inodorum Tink, Handb. 2: 7. 1831. 
Chrysobotrya intermedia Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 4: 19. 1835. 
Chrysobotrya Lindleyana Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. I]. 4: 20. 1835. 
Ribes aureum tenuifiorum Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep. 4: 88. 1857. 
Ribes leiobotrys Koehne, Deuts. Dendr. 192. 1893. 
Ribes aureum chrysococcum Rydb. Fl, Neb. 21: 71. 1895. 
Ribes aureum leiobotrys Zabel, Handb. Laubh. Deuts. Dendr. Ges. 143. 1903. 
