242 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



^ I. Ribes brandegei, sp. nov. 



Plate XXIII, Figs. \a and \b. 



Shrub with erect, branching stems unarmed; older bark dull brown; young 

 bark glossy, not shreddy. Leaves three-lobed, reniform, 3-4 mm. long, and 

 of about equal width; upper surface sparsely pubescent with fine, silky hairs, 

 mostly on the veins, and with scattered sessile or shortly stipitate glands; 

 lower surface pale green, with appressed, glandular hairs, veins at base vil- 

 lous; margin incised-dentate, glandular-ciliate; petioles generally shorter than 

 the blades, glabrous or clothed with a fine pubescence under the gland-tipped 

 hairs; stipular dilation 3 mm. broad, fringed with uneven, glandular hairs. 

 Inflorescence racemose, erect in flower, the peduncles equalling or longer 

 than the flowering portion, generally surpassing the leaves; pubescence as 

 on the petioles; bracts foliaceous, oblanceolate to obovate, acuminate, 

 incised, glandular-ciliate; flowers three to ten, on slender, erect pedicels 

 which later become as long as the flower. Calyx rose-color, 8 mm. long, 

 pubescent on the outside, glandular at base, puberulent within; divisions as 

 long as the tube, oblanceolate to obovate, cucuUate at summit, 2 mm. wide. 

 Petals white, half as long as the calyx divisions, 1.5 mm. wide, orbicular- 

 spatulate, on short claws. Stamens with slender filaments, 1.5 mm. long; 

 anthers oblong, tipped with a blunt mucro. Style two-cleft at apex, with the 

 stigmas broad. Berry glabrous, globular. 



This species is related to Ribes sanguinemn Pursh from 

 which it differs in the pubescence, inflorescence, and shape 

 of floral organs, as can be seen by the figures. 



Collected by Mr. T. S. Brandegee, in whose honor the 

 author takes pleasure in naming it, first at Sierra de Laguna, 

 Lower California, January 25, 1890, later in the mountains 

 of the Cape Region, March 26, 1892. 



/ 2. Ribes scuphami, sp. nov. 



Plate XXIII, Figs. 2a and 2b. 



Shrub with the upper bark reddish, shreddy, puberulent, unarmed. Leaves 

 orbicular, three- to five-lobed, truncate to reniform at base, 2-5 cm. wide, 

 about as long, unevenly dentate; upper surface pubescent with crisp, spread- 

 ing hairs; lower, canescent with matted hairs; stipular dilation of the petiole 

 broad, glandular, and tomentose, fringed with glandular hairs; petioles about 

 as long as the blades, with pubescence like the stipules. Racemes numerous 

 at the ends of the branches, 9 cm. long, slender, when flowering erect on 

 peduncles which are shorter than the leaves; bracts oblanceolate, red, gland- 

 ular, 8 mm. long, denticulate at apex; pedicels filiform, erect, a little longer 

 than the bracts. Flowers subtended by two small, red bracteoles which 

 are soon deciduous. Calyx rose-color, with tube 5 mm. long, divisions 



