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40406 to 40496— Continued. 



rarely 5 lobed, with lobes often sharp, even acuminate, subeordate or 

 cordate base, dull, glabrous, or pubescent below. Racemes pendent, up 

 to 16 cm. long (in Shensi), even 20 cm. (according to Franchet), with- 

 out appendages in the lower third, loose or crowded, bearing as many as 

 50 flowers. Flowers small, basin shaped, greenish, glabrous or sub- 

 pubescent. Young fruit bluish green, fruit as large as a very large cur- 

 rant, red, subacid under cultivation, or strongly acid (according to 

 David). Insertion of the dry flower 5 lobed. Seeds large, rounded; 

 matures in mid-August. Native of northern China, Shensi, eastern Mon- 

 golia, Chihli, Korea, and in all of Manchuria down to the sea. In cool 

 elevated valleys, and in more or less humid forests, Komarow distin- 

 guished two varieties : Var. villosa with leaves subpubescent above, tomen- 

 tose below, with larger lobes. It lives in Shensi and Mongolia. Its 

 racemes are very long and loose ; var. subglabrum, with glabrous leaves, 

 or a little pubescent on the nerves. Their lobes are habitually pointed. 

 even acuminate. Racemes short, 3 to 8 cm., crowded, containing as many 

 as 45 flowers. We have received this from some locality in eastern 

 Manchuria (Ussuri). It also lives in Korea. R. manshuricum is a twin 

 species of R. multiflorum, distinguished perfectly by the form of the leaves, 

 by the less deeply split style, and the projections of the receptacle lower 

 and not united by a distinct ring." (E. Janczewski, Monographic de 

 Groseilliers, p. 21 If. ) 



40461. Ribes meyeri Maxim. 

 " 7433." 



" Tall shrub, more than 1 meter. Young shoots washed with red, 

 slender, glabrous. Buds lengthened, very small, as in R. himalayense. 

 Developing very late, contemporaneous with R. petraeum. Leaves rounded, 

 9 cm. long and broad, almost always 5 lobed. with lobes subacute or 

 obtuse, sometimes little developed, with cordate base, glabrous, more 

 rarely dotted with glandular bristles abov%. Flowers small, subtubular, 

 washed with reddish purple. Fruit round, black, shiny, crowned by the 

 withered flower contracted into a wisp. Pulp juicy, deep purple, without 

 pronounced flavor. Matures in the end of July and August. Germina- 

 tion slow, after seven months, rarely after three months. Native of the 

 mountains of Central Asia from the Pamir as far as Sungaria. We know 

 and cultivate two distinct varieties of this species, of which probably 

 the first was known to Maximowicz: Var. tanguticum .lane/,., with the 

 leaves more or less acute lobed. dotted above with glandular bristles, 

 from Tangout; var. turkestanicum Jancz., with leaves more or less 

 obtuse lobed, glabrous above, from Turkestan and Sungaria." {E. Janc- 

 zewski, Monographic des Groseilliers, p. 2.97.) 



40462. Ribes meyeri turkestanicum Jancz. 

 " 7412 B." 



For description of this species, see S. P. I. No. 40461. 



40463. Ribes meyeri tanguticum Jancz. 

 " 7412." 



For description of this species, see S. P. 1. No. 40461. 



40464. Ribes moupinense laxiflobum Jancz. 

 " 7555 Z." 



