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LXXX. 



LXXX. RIBESIACE^E. 

 (CACTOEUM genus, Jussieu. GROSRULARIE.*, D.C. GROSSULACE^E,' Lindl.) 



Currant. (Ribes rubrum.) 

 Inflorescence (mag.). 



Currant. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Currant. Diagram. 



Currant. 

 Seed cut vertically (mag.). 



Currant. 

 Uacomes of fruits. 



Currant. 

 Vertical section of flower (mag.). 



Ribfi Uva-crispa. 

 Transverse section of fruit (mag.). 



COROLLA polypetalous, epigynous, isostemonous, (estivation imbricate. STAMENS 

 5, inserted alternately with the petals. OVARY inferior, 1-celled ; placentas parietal. 

 OVULES horizontal, anatropous. FRUIT a berry. EMBRYO albuminous. STEM woody. 

 LEAVES scattered or fascicled. 



SHRUBS, unarmed, or armed with infra-axillary or scattered spines ; branches 

 ejlindric or angular. LEAVES scattered or fascicled, simple, petioled, palminerved, 

 often glandular, folded or convolute in bud ; petiole channelled, dilated at its base. 

 FLOWERS 5 , or often imperfect through arrest, regular, usually racemed, and termi- 

 nating in very short leafy or sometimes leafless branchlets or buds ; pedicels 2-brac- 

 teolate, jointed near the top. CALYX coloured, marcescent, superior, cylindric, cam- 

 panulate or cupular, 5-4-fid. PETALS inserted on the throat of the calyx, alternate 



