408 RIBES 



Closely allied to R. sanguineum are the two following sometimes regarded 

 as varieties of it : 



R. GLUTINOSUM, Bentham.TlM.s differs from R. sanguineum in the 

 young shoots and leaves being furnished with glandular glutinous hairs, and 

 in being less downy ; also in its quite pendulous racemes. It is inferior in 

 garden value. Native of California and Washington. 



R. MALVACEUM, Smith. Leaves bristly, rough, and finely wrinkled above, 

 the lower surface and stalk covered with a grey felt with which are mixed 

 glandular hairs. The flower-stalk, ovary, and calyx are also covered with 

 bristly down. Flowers bright rose, smaller and not so beautiful as in R. 

 sanguineum. From that species and R. glutinosum it is distinct in having 

 the ovary and style covered with white hairs. Native of California. 



R. SPECIOSUM, Pursh. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 3530 ; R. fuchsioides, Mocino.') 



A deciduous, spiny shrub, 6 to 9 ft. high, the young" shoots furnished with 

 gland-tipped bristles. Leaves three- sometimes five-lobed, sparsely toothed, 

 and from f to ij ins. long and wide, with smaller ones often obovate and 

 tapered at the base ; usually quite smooth ; stalk slender, scarcely as long as 

 the blade, with a few glandular bristles, especially at the base. Flowers rich 

 red, usually two to five in pendulous clusters, the main-stalk longer and less 

 glandular than the minor ones. Calyx tubular, ^ in. long, glandular ; sepals 

 four, not reflexed ;' petals four, about as long as the sepals ; stamens four, red, 

 standing out f in. beyond the calyx. Fruit glandular-bristly, red, ^ in. long, 

 rarely seen in this' country. 



Native of California ; discovered by Menzies about 1793, anc ^ introduced 

 from Monterey by a naval surgeon named Collie in 1828. As a flowering 

 shrub it is the most beautiful of the gooseberries. Its branches are reddish, 

 horizontal, or slightly dependent, and from their under-side the richly coloured, 

 fuchsia-like blossoms hang profusely in rows during April and May. It is 

 very distinct in the parts of the flower being in fours (not the usual fives), and 

 in the very long highly coloured stamens. It is one of the earliest shrubs to 

 break into leaf often in early February. It shows to best advantage perhaps 

 against a wall, where it will grow 10 or 12 ft. high, but is quite hardy in the 

 open at Kew., where it has grown 6 or 7 ft. high. It can be rooted from 

 cuttings, but does not strike readily ; layering is a more certain process. 



R. VIBURNIFOLIUM, A. Gray. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8094.) 



An evergreen, unarmed shrub, 7 or 8 ft. high against a wall ; young 

 shoots slightly downy at first, with numerous resin glands. Leaves ovate or oval, 

 | to if ins. long, | to i| ins. wide : rounded at the base, blunt at the apex, 

 coarsely toothed, glossy and smooth above, almost or quite devoid of down 

 beneath, but thickly sown with resin-dots which emit a very pleasant turpentine- 

 like odour when rubbed ; stalk downy, ^ to % in. long. Flowers % in. across, 

 produced in April in erect racemes about i in. long, terminating short, densely 

 leafy shoots ; dull rose-coloured, the sepals spreading. Berry oval, red, | in. 

 long. 



Native of Lower California and Santa Catalina Island ; introduced to 

 Kew in 1897. A remarkably distinct species, of little beauty, but interesting 

 for its evergreen aromatically scented leaves. It needs wall protection 

 at Kew. 



