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H. Veatchii. 



Suflrutescent, decumbent or prostrate, very stout: appres- 

 sed-silky throughout even to the pods: leaflets 3 — 4, oblong- 

 obovate, somewhat cuneate, 6 — 9 lines long: umbels numer- 

 ous, nearly sessile, bractless, 10 — 12-flowered: calyx 3 — 4 

 lines long; its teeth short-triangular, acute: corolla twice as 

 long as the calyx: pods almost straight, an inch or some- 

 what less in length. 



From the peninsula of Lower California, at Elide, oppo- 

 site Cedros Island, by Dr. Veatch. The specimens have 

 remained thus many years unnoticed, in the herbarium of 

 the late Mr. H. G. Bloomer. Plant very robust, and large- 

 flowered for a member of the Syrmatiiim group. 



RIBES. 

 R. quercetorum. 



Prickles none; thorns stout, solitary: glabrous or very 

 minutely puberulent, glandless: leaves small, numerous, 

 5-cleft, the lobes narrow, cuneiform, 3-cleft or -toothed, a 

 half inch long on petioles of an inch or less : peduncles slen- 

 der, deflexed, with two or more small, bright yellow flowers : 

 calyx tubular, minutely puberulent, the lobes linear-oblong, 

 lightly ciliate, a little longer than the petals, reflexed: sta- 

 mens shorter than the petals; anthers short-oblong: style 

 glabrous, undivided; stigmas two; ovary glabrous: berry 

 small, smooth. 



Bushes 3 or 4 feet high, in dense, well rounded clumps, 

 growing in oak groves at the base of the mountains in Mon- 

 terey and San Luis Obispo counties; especially abundant at 

 El Paso de Robles, where it was collected bv the writer in 

 March, 1884. The species is near R. leptanthum: the very 

 small yellow flowers are very fragrant. Bipe fruit has not 

 been seen. 



R. velutinum. 



Without prickles, the stout thorns solitary : glandless but 



