26 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



40406 to 40496— Continued. 



racemes and flowers of the currants. Its multiple spines are also distinct. 

 Although it has no lively color to recommend it. it is pretty when its 

 branches are strung with the graceful drooping racemes." (W. J. Bean, 

 Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. '. p. £08.) 



40456. liiia os -montigenum McClatchie. 



" 7553." 



"Another species, which mutes as R. lacustre does the two sections of 

 the genus, but has shorter, fewer flowered racemes (six to ten) and 

 bright red fruits. Introduced from western North America in 1905." 

 (11*. •/. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. -'(03.) 



40457. Kibks leptanthum A. Gray. Gooseberry. 



" 7508." 



"A deciduous, spiny shrub, 3 or 4 feet high, with slightly downy, occa- 

 sionally glandular-bristly young branches: spines usually slender, soli- 

 tary, up to one-half inch long. Leaves roundish or somewhat kidney 

 shaped, one-fourth to three-fourths inch wide, deeply 3 or 5 lobed, toothed, 

 the base mostly truncate; stalk as long as the blade, downy at the base. 



Flowers white, tinged with pink, one to thrf n a short stalk; calyx 



cylindrical, the sepals downy, ultimately reflexed. Fruit oval, shining. 

 blackish red, slightly downy or smooth. Native of Colorado, New Mexico, 

 etc. ; one of the prettiest and daintiest of gooseberries lately introduced, 

 the branches being slender and densely clothed with tiny leaves." | \V. J. 

 Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, p. .'/0'.) 



40458. Ribes longeracemosum Franchet. Currant. 

 " 7517." 



"Mr. Wilson has recently introduced this extraordinary currant from 

 western China, where it had originally been discovered by the Abbe David. 

 The one character which distinguishes it from all its tribe is its remark- 

 able racemes, from 12 to 18 inches long, pendulous, thinly set with 

 greenish flowers and afterwards with jet-black fruits which Mr. "Wilson 

 tells me are about the size of an ordinary black currant and of good 

 flavor. It is a deciduous unarmed shrub with smooth young shoots and 

 3 or 5 lobed. smooth leaves. 3 to ~>h inches long and wide: stalks up to 

 4i inches long, furnished with glandular bristles most numerous toward 

 each end. Flowers tubular, bell shaped, smooth. The species appears 

 to be quite hardy and is worth the attention of lovers of curiosities and 

 Of fruit growers for hybridising. The fruits, however, are very thinly 

 disposed along the stalk." ( W. J. Bean, Trees and shrubs Hardy in the 

 British isles, vol. 2, p. W4.) 



40459. Ribes longebacemostjm davidii Jancz. 



•• Tooo Y." 



"Wilson No. 898. Woodlands, altitude L,800 to 2,400 meters. Mupin, 

 western Szechwan, June, 1908." (E. //. Wilson.) 



40460. Ribes manshubicum (Maxim.) Komarow. Red currant. 



" 7544." 



"Shrub li to 2 meters, with young shoots glabrous or subpubescent. 

 Bark of the wild plants almost black, with leaden reflections. Buds ovoid, 

 not larger than those of /.'. petraeum. Leaves large, broad, resembling 

 those of R. latifolium, 9 cm. long, 11 cm. broad, usually 3 lobed, more 



