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NATURAL ORDER, GROSSULACEA. 
; Artificial divisions PENTANDRIA, 
to which MONOGYNIA, 
this Plant belongs OF LINNEUS, 
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DECANDOLLE. * 
NUS. Rises. Linvavs. Catyx 5-lobus,laciniis plus minus coloratis. 
Perata 5 parva albida lutea vel rubra. Stamina 5 rarissime 6, filamentis libe- 
ris. Styzr 1-2-3-4-fida. Bacca unilocularis, receptaculis lateralibus. SEMINA 
arillata oblonga subcompressa. DECANDOLLE. 
SPECIES. Rises speciosum. PursH. Subgemmis 3-plicato-aculea- 
tum, Fotis euneato-sub-rotundis inciso-crenatis glabris nervosis. PETIOLIS 
brevibus. Prpuncutts subtrifloris folio — pedicellis germinibusque 
glanduloso-pilosis. Dzcanpotte. Ibid, 8. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, se ee five-lobed, segments 
more or less coloured. PETALS five, small, whitish, yellow, or red. 
Stamens 5 seldom 6, filaments free Styxes 1-2-3 or 4-cleft. BERRY 
one-celled, receptacles lateral. Srxeps generally furnished with an 
arillus oblong, somewhat compressed. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, Rises: ipecibaum: Survs about 
four or five feet high, branched, branches alternate, surface covered 
with glandular hairs. THorns three, placed undereach bud. Leaves 
alternate, fasciculated, petiolate, wedge-shaped, lobed, smooth veined, 
light green above, greyish green below. FLOWER-STALKS axillary 
two or three-flowered, longer than the petioles. FLowers pedicellate, 
bracteate ; the pedicels and ovaries covered with glandular hairs. 
Catyx tubular, coloured. Prtaxs 5, small. Stamens 4-5, greatly 
exceeding the calyx in length. Fitaments slender, red. ANTHERS 
two-celled. Stryze long, slender, shorter than the stamens, stigma 
two-cleft. Frurr a berry, one-celled. 
Popurar AND GrocrapuicaL Notice. Every one who has seen 
this very beautiful species of gooseberry is struck with the apparent 
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REFERENCE TO THE DissEcTIONs. 
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