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linear-oblong, 7 mm. long. Petals white turning reddish, oblanceolate, cune- 

 ate, 4 mm. long. Stamens a little shorter than the petals; anthers globular. 

 Ovary sparingly pubescent, and with scattered, stipitate glands. 



This is nearest to Ribes sangiiineum Pursh. It differs 

 especially in having the racemes erect in flower, also in the 

 more slender flowers with narrowed divisions. This species 

 is the most beautiful of all belonging to the group of which 

 R. sanguineinn is the type. 



It was collected on Smith River, Del Norte County, 

 California, by Major J. R. Scupham, May, 1898. It is 

 a pleasure to name this plant in honor of one who has 

 brought many interesting plants to the herbarium of the 

 California Academy of Sciences from little explored parts 

 of California. 



y 3. Ribes indecorum, sp. nov. 



Plate XXIII, Figs. 3a and ^fi. 



Shrub with erect stems, having dark brown, shreddy bark on the older 

 growth, the younger parts tomentose and glandular. Leaves three-lobed, 

 2-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, finely rugose on the upper surface, clothed with 

 stipitate glands, and a fine, sparse, silky pubescence; lower surface white 

 with a felt-like tomentum, and with a few gland-tipped hairs on the veins; 

 margins irregularly, doubly crenate; petioles stout, shorter than or equalling 

 the blades, glandular and tomentose, the stipular dilation (as wide on each 

 side as the petiole) fringed on the margin with uneven, gland-tipped hairs. 

 Inflorescence racemose, spreading or pendent, in fruit surpassing the leaves; 

 flowers sessile but erect; peduncles short; bracts foliaceous, almost equalling 

 the flowers, lanceolate, 6 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, with the margins fringed 

 with long, gland -tipped hairs. Peduncles stout, glandular, and tomentose. 

 Flowers at base subtended by two membranous, glandular, and tomentose 

 bracteoles; calyx-tube more than twice as long as the broad, rounded divi- 

 sions; these tomentose and glandular on both sides, almost 2 mm. wide; 

 petals orbicular, reniform, i mm. wide, crenulate, on very short and broad 

 claws. Stamens as long as the petals, on stout, short, deltoid filaments; 

 anthers .75 mm. long, longer than the filaments. Style stout, hairy at base, 

 two-cleft at apex, with broad, yellow stigmas; ovary tomentose and somewhat 

 glandular. 



Collected by the author at Cajon Heights, near San 

 Diego, California, March 14, 1891. There is also a 

 specimen in the Herbarium of the California Academy of 

 Sciences collected by Dr. George Thurber at San Pasqual, 

 San Diego County. It is labeled Ribes sangtiineum. No. 606. 



