MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES. 69 
thin bark, the epidermis glabrous, reddish brown, smooth and 
. Shining: leaves thin, deciduous, short-petioled, narrowly 
oblong, obtuse or acutish, closely and finely serrulate, glab- 
rous on both faces: flowers in loose axillary umbellate clus- 
ters, mostly pentamerous, all perfect: calyx segments cam- 
panulate-spreading: petals minute, externally setulose-hairy 
below the middle, each closely cucullate over and entirel 
concealing the anther which is inserted on a very short deltoid 
filament: styles mostly 2 only: fruit globose-pyriform, dark 
purple, 2-seeded. 
Eastern base of the Sierra Nevada, near Truckee, California, 
the specimens from Mr. C. F. Sonne. Species allied to the 
evergreen R. Calfornica of the western part of California 
which has also been named R. oleifolius and which is of a 
quite different floral character, its calyx segments being rotate- 
spreading, its filaments subulate and sufficiently elongated to 
bear the anthers clear above the petals, which latter are en- 
tirely destitute of the hairiness which a good magnifying 
power reveals in those of R. rubra, so designated partly be- 
eause it will be an easy and euphonious name, and partly be- 
cause the outer bark has a red-brown tinge very unlike that 
of the species with which it will stand in closest juxtaposition. 
RIBES AMICTUM. Cinereous-tomentose or glabrate, branches 
not prickly but with stout short triple thorns at the nodes: 
leaves small, 3—5-lobed : peduncles 1-flowered, the bract soli- 
tary, cucullate, completely enwrapping the ovary, deciduous, 
its margin entire, in pabescent forms tomentose-ciliate, in 
other forms nearly naked: calyx dark purple, 4—6 lines long, 
cylindrical-tubular with reflexed segments : filaments subu- - 
late, scarcely exceeding the erose-dentate involute white petals; 
anthers a line long, ovate, acute, tipped with a blunt or even 
truncate muero: ovary prickly. 
Interior valleys of Humboldt County, California, near Gar- 
berville, Miss Bush ; also in Hoopa Valley, Mr. C. C. Marshall, 
1887. 
