24 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40406 to 40496— Continued. 



or not. They resemble those of R. petraeum. Native of the Himalayas, 

 Hupeh, and Shensi. Var. appendiculatum Jancz. Leaves with short 

 subobtuse lobes. Flowers similar, not ciliate. Anthers surmounted with 

 a point prolonging the connective. We know this only from herbarium 

 specimens collected in the Himalayas at Phulal Daru, Nila Valley. Var. 

 urceolatum Jancz. Leaves acute lobed. Flowers with swollen receptacle, 

 with short broad sepals, more or less divergent into a funnel, always 

 ciliate. Native of Yunnan and Sikkim. Our plant is originally from 

 Sikkim. The flowers are purple on the outside and pubescent." (E. 

 Janczewski, Monographie des Groseilliers, p. 296.) 



40449. Ribes hiktellum Michx. Gooseberry. 



" 7485." 



" This species is very near R. oxyacanthoides, but has smooth shoots 

 and stamens twice as long as the petals, which arc purplish. Berry 

 smooth, purplish or black, one-half inch across. — Curtis's Botanical Mag- 

 azine, pi. 6892 (as oxyacanthoides). It has borne very good fruit in the 

 Isle of Wight, where it is known as ' currant gooseberry.' ' (W. J. Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. ^02.) 



40450. X Ribes hoeosericeum Otto and Dietrich. Currant. 



" 7349." 



" Petraeum var. caucasicum X rubrum. Erect shrub* 1 to 1$ meters, 

 with robust shoots washed with red. Leaves medium size, rounded. 

 6* cm. long, 1\ cm. broad, 3 lobed, more often sublobate, with lobes little 

 developed, cordate base, subglabrous above, quite pubescent below. 

 Flowers shortly campanulate, reddish, more often brownish, ciliate. 

 Fertility sometimes little, sometimes great, according to the year. In 

 some cases as many as 15 fruits in the raceme. Fruits small or medium 

 in size, blackish purple, ordinarily compressed near the flower and in the 

 form of a bergamot, surmounted by the withered flower with ovoid or 

 pentagonal-rounded insertion. Pulp juicy, red, rather acid. Seeds few in 

 number, purple. The second generation is heterogenous, composed 

 of plants of which some resemble a little R. vulgare, others entirely re- 

 semble R. rubrum, which grew beside the mother plant and probably 

 served to fertilize it. if?, holosericeum (velvety currant) resembles in 

 the richness of its racemes and the coloration of the flowers R. petraeum, 

 but its receptacle, devoid of all excrescence, its straight filaments and the 

 arch of the ovary little raised attest that R. rubrum entered into the 

 crossing. The pubescence of the leaves, their cordate base, their slightly 

 developed lobes, as well as the deep coloration of the fruits, seem to 

 indicate that R. petraeum var. caucasicum with blackish fruits was one 

 of its parents. In fact R. holosericeum is grown in some establishments 

 under the name R. caucasicum." (E. Janczewski, Monographie des 

 Groseilliers, p. J f 8S.) 



40451 and 40452. Ribes inebrians Lindley. 



40451. "7327." 



"Very similar to I', cereum, and equally pleasing, this differs in 

 having the brad ;it the base of each flower not toothed and pointed. 

 the style smooth, and the flowers deeper in colour. Introduced from 

 western North America in 1S27." (W. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs 

 HunUj in the British Isles, vol. >. p. 399-.' f 00.) 



