MACLOSKIE : SAXIFRAGACE/E. 465 



Species 60, from Himalaya by E. Asia and Siberia to W. Amer., and 

 by the Andes to Patagon. Not native in Australasia. 



i. RIBES CUCULLATUM Hook. & Arn. 



Unarmed, with glabrous branches. Leaves glabrous, about 5-lobed, 

 round-reniform, cuneate and cucullate at base, the lobes mutually incum- 

 bent, acutely incised-lobate. Petiole nearly as long as the leaf. Raceme 

 scarcely puberulous, axillary, short, few-flowered, flowers subsessile, 

 scarcely exceeding the roundish bracts. 



(Chili) ; W. Patagonia, by Rio Aysen (Dusen) ; S. Patagon. 



2. R. EBRACTEOLATUM Spach. (./?. alpinoides Domb.) 



Leaves ovate to ovate-oblong or subrotund, coarsely crenate-serrate or 

 dentate, deeply 3-lobed, basitruncate or cuneate, or subcordate. Racemes 

 (sterile) 3-5 cm. long, rather lax ; pedicels very short, ebracteolate. 

 Calyx-lobes half as long as the tube. Style subsimple. 



Erect shrub, nearly 2 meters high. Peduncles 3 cm. long, with pubes- 

 cent rachis. Bracts 6-8 mm. long, the lower exceeding the flowers ; 

 but no bracteoles on the pedicels. 



Patagon. 



3. R. GLANDULOSUM Ruiz & Pav. 



Leaves cordate, obtusely 3-lobed, biserrate, rugose. Racemes short. 

 Calyx glandular-pubescent. 



(Andine region) ; Chubut, in mountain shrubberies. 



4. R. LACARENSE Phil. 



Leaves with suborbicular laminae (8-9 mm? across), subcuneate, 3- 

 nerved or trifid, the lobes obovate, 3-toothed, petioles 4-5 mm. long. 

 Peduncles mostly 3-flowered. Bracts ovate, orbicular, obtuse, glabrous. 

 Flowers sessile, small, glabrous. Sepals acute, pink. Berries purple. 



Near Lago Blanco, Chubut. 



5- R. MAGELLANICUM Poir. 



Unarmed, puberulous. Leaves ovate, or broad-ovate-rotundate, trun- 

 cate at base or cordate, 3-lobed, coarsely biserrate, the younger grandular, 

 the older smooth, save the nerves underneath. Racemes many-flowered, 



