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texture, mostly 3-lobed, sometimes 5-lobed, cordate or subcordate at the base, the upper 
surface dark-green, stipitate-glandular, and sparingly pubescent, the under surface whitish- 
tomentose, the lobes crenulate, obtuse, the stout petioles shorter than the blades, glandular- 
ciliate toward the base; racemes drooping, several-flowered, longer than the leaves ; pedicels 
2-5 mm. long; bracts ovate to lanceolate, glandular-serrulate, acute, longer than the pedi- 
cels ; ovary densely white-pubescent and with glandular hairs ; hypanthium pink or purple, 
cylindric-urceolate, 5-7 mm. long, pubescent, distinctly longer than the obtuse sepals; 
petals rounded, short-clawed, about half as long.asthe petals; berry viscid-pubescent, 1 cm. 
in diameter or less. 
TYPE LocaLiTy: California. 
DISTRIBUTION : Coast of middle and southern California, and northern Lower California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. II. p/. 340; Meyer, loc. cit. pl. 4; Loud. Arb. f. 741 ; 
C. K. Schneid. Handb. Laubh. 1: f. 265m, 2; Mém. Soc. Genéve 353 : f. 59 a-c. 
43. Ribes indecorum Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III. 
Bot. 2: 243. 1902. 
Ribes malvaceum indecorum Jancz, Mém. Soc. Genéve 35: 325. 1907. 
Stems erect, unarmed, the young shoots pubescent and with glandular hairs; petioles, 
under leaf-surfaces, and inflorescence tomentose and glandular-pubescent. Leaves reniform- 
orbicular to ovate-orbicular in outline, firm in texture, cordate or subcordate at the base, 
3-5-lobed, 2-5 cm. wide, the upper surface rugose, stipitate-glandular, and with some simple 
hairs, the lobes obtuse, crenulate, the petioles rather stout, mostly shorter than the blades, 
with a few long glandular hairs toward the base; racemes drooping or spreading, closely 
several-flowered, as long as the leaves or longer; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; bracts ovate- 
lanceolate, acute, 3-5 mm. long; ovary covered with both glandular and white divergent 
simple hairs ; hypanthium white or greenish-white, cylindric-urceolate, glandular-pubescent, 
3-4 mm. long, nearly twice as long as the obtuse sepals; style villous toward the base; 
petals suborbicular, short-clawed, about 1 mm. long; berry viscid, at least 7 mm. in di- 
ameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cajon Heights, near San Diego, California. 
DISTRIBUTION: Southern California. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Eastw. loc. ctt. pl. 23, f.3 ; Janez. loc. cit. f. 59 d, e. 
2. GROSSULARIA CTourn.) Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. 7. 1759. 
Robsonia Spach, Hist. Vég. 6: 180. 1838. 
Shrubs with erect ascending or trailing branches, the nodes armed with simple or 3- 
forked spines or rarely spineless. Racemes few-flowered, the flowers bracteate; pedicels 
not jointed, the bractlets if present minute, situated at the very base of the pedicel, and 
covered by the bract. Ovary often spiny. Hypanthium evident. Fruit not disarticulating 
from the pedicel. 
Type species, Aibes Grossularia L. 
A. Flowers tetramerous; petals equaling the sepals; stamens exceeding 
the outstretched sepals by more than the combined length of ovary, 
hypanthium, and sepals. (SPECIOSAE.) 1. G. speciosa. 
B. Flowers pentamerous; petals decidedly shorter than the sepals; sta- 
mens not as described above. 
a. Anthers lanceolate to lanceolate-ovate, 2 mm. long or more. 
(MENZIESU.) 
* Hypanthium about as long as broad, less than half and usually 
about a third or a fourth the length of the sepals; young 
branches usually with bristles in addition to the nodal spines. 
Sepals greenish-white ; ovary clothed with gland-tipped hairs, 
without an admixture of longer glandless bristles. 
Filaments equaling or exceeding the outstretched sepals, twice 
as long as the petals. 2. G. Greeneiana, 
Filaments distinctly shorter than the extended sepals, often 
only a little longer than the petals. 3. G. Victoris. 
Sepals purple to green; ovary often, and in species with green 
flowers always, with longer glandiless bristles among the 
gland-tipped hairs. : 
Ovary whitened with a dense covering of long straight white 
glandless hairs interspersed with a few glandular or glandless 
bristles; leaves softly villous-pubescent beneath, even at 
maturity, with a few coarse glanduliferous hairs. 7. G. sentlis. 
