1e me lee hod is cet 2cm. he ig ipa pay a mim. ayer 
nm, across; upper joint 12 or 13mm. long, including the i 
of 4mm., the body 71min. across, the beak not retuse, merely 
truncate a narrowed at the apex which is rarely 2 mm. across. 
“ht Ribes Suksdorfii 
‘Shrub, probably 1 to 2 meters high, young branches meee 
der. and wand-like without bristles, bark grey: infrastipular 
spines brown, solitary, small, ascending, 5mm. long or: less: 
leaves thin, broadly ovate in outline, the blade 3cm. long and 
as wide, plainly 3 or indistinctly 5-lobed, the sinus between the 
F lobes narrow, margins irregularly toothed, the segments com- 
monly rounded and obtuse, ciliate, the base truncate or slightly 
cordate, both surfaces pubescent with short semizappressed hairs, 
especially the lower; petioles slender, a little shorter than the 
blades, more or less pubescent: peduncles proper slender, droop- 
ing, 15mm. or less in length, 3-flowered, glabrous: a rounded 
ciliate bract at the base of each pedicel, two nearly equal pedi- 
cels springing from the first bract, one of them forked about 
5mm. above the base, where there is a second bract from which 
arises the third pedicel, also bearing a bract about 5mm. from 
the base: calyx greenish on the outside except the purple edges 
of the lobes, about 8mm. long commonly glabrous on the out- 
side except sometimes for a few hairs on the outside of the lobes, 
the tube narrowly funnelform, 3mm. long, 2mm. wide across 
the top, pubescent within, the finally reflexed lobes oblong, 
5mm. long, 2mm. wide, blunt and rounded at apex, purplish or 
dull red on the inside: petals white or pinkish, 3 mm. long, Imm. 
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