XXXIII. SAXIFRAGES. [Ribes. 



A small pubescent shrub, armed with. 1-3 spines under the leaf-buds, 

 and often with smaller scattered prickles. Leaves fasciculate on short 

 lateral branchlets, nearly orbicular, 3-5-lobed, 1 in. diam. ; lobes irregularly 

 crenate. Flowers solitary or twin, greenish, drooping, on short, pubescent, 

 1-3-bracteate peduncles. Berries glandular-hairy. 



Southern flank of Safedkoh 8000-12,000 ft. Arid tracts of the inner Hima- 

 laya, from the Indus to Kamaon, between 8000 and 11,500 ft. Kaghan, Lahoul, 

 Kunawar, Niti, Europe (in Norway to near the 63d degree N. lat), North Africa, 

 Armenia, Caucasus. Fl. spring ; fruit ripe Sept.-Oct, small and sour. Lin- 

 naeus established two species : R. Grossularia, with glandular hairy fruit, 

 R. Uva crispa, with the ripe fruit glabrous. Both are cultivated in numerous 

 varieties throughout Europe ; they are, however, now commonly united into one 

 species. 



2. R. orientale, Poiret; Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 817. Syn. R. lepto- 

 stachyum, D ne . in Jacq. Voy. Bot. t. 76. R. villosum, Wall, in Fl. Ind., ed. 

 Carey, ii. 514. R. glandulosum, Thorns. West Him. 104. Vern. Gwal- 

 dakh, kaghdk, Kaghan; Nangke, nyai, phuldnch (the fruit nyangha), 

 Chenab; Askuta, askutar, Ladak; Yange, Piti. 



A small shrub, unarmed, pubescent with short hairs, and viscid all over 

 with numerous, yellow or brown stipitate glands. Leaves generally fasci- 

 culate ; branchlets marked with the scars of bud-scales and leaves. Leaves 

 nearly orbicular, with cordate or rounded base, 3- rarely 5-lobed, crenate- 

 dentate, greyish brown beneath ; basal nerves 3 or 5, with few lateral 

 nerves. Flowers unisexual, dioicous, in erect racemes, with linear or ob- 

 long, concave, ciliate, deciduous bracts, somewhat longer than pedicels. 

 Male racemes with many, female with few flowers. Calyx flat, cup-shaped ; 

 segments ovate, obtuse, much longer than the small obovate petals. Fila- 

 ments short, not exceeding anthers. Berry red or yellow when ripe, with 

 scattered glandular hairs, J in. long or less, with about 10 seeds. 



Safedkoh 8000-10,000 ft. Arid tracts" of inner Himalaya, between 6500 (on 

 the Indus, T. Thomson) and 14,000 ft., from the Indus to Nepal. Tibet. Afghan- 

 istan (Griff.) Persia. Kurdistan, Caucasus, Armenia, Syria (Hermon, Lebanon). 

 I follow Karl Koch, Dendrol. 656, and Boissier 1. c, in uniting under one species 

 the West Asiatic and Himalayan plant, as I find no specific difference. Fl. 

 April-June ; fruit ripe Oct., mawkish sweet. 



3. R. glaciale, Wall, in Boxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey, ii. 513. Syn. 

 R. acuminatum, Wall. 



An erect, unarmed shrub, glabrous or slightly pubescent ; branches 

 with brown, shining, perfectly smooth cuticle, peeling off in long strips 

 or rolls. Leaves 1-3 in. long, 3- sometimes 5-lobed, lobes acute or acumi- 

 nate, more or less deeply cut, the subdivisions serrate, basal nerves 3-5, 

 the midrib with 2-4 pairs of main lateral nerves ; glabrous or pubescent 

 beneath along the nerves, occasionally with scattered sessile or stipitate 

 glands. Flowers green (Wall.), fuscous (H. & Th.), in pubescent and 

 glandular racemes, 2-3 in. long, erect when in flower, drooping when in 

 fruit ; bracts linear-oblong, longer than pedicels, nearly as long as flowers. 

 Berry round, smooth, red, (black?), as large as a common red currant, sour 

 and astringent. 



