lo. Kibes viridifoliiim (Abrams) 



Ribes malvaceum viridifolium Abrams, Bull. So. Cal. Acad. 



1: 67. 1902. 

 R. glutinosum^ of local lists, not R. glutinosum^ Bentb. 

 Shrub, i-2m. bigh, rather compact, the young brancblets short 

 pubescent and more or less densely glandular with stalked 

 glands; leaves, rather thick, 3-7cm. broad, slightly or not at all 

 rugose, bright green minutely scabrous and somewhat glandular 

 with sessile glands above, pale and glandular-pubescent beneath; 

 petioles beset with stalked glands, and more or less puberulent, 

 dilated at base, the margins ciliate; inflorescence glandular- 

 pubescent, racemes rather long,|[peduncled, drooping, many- 

 flow ered; bracts ovate icm. long, ciliate toothed above; pedicels 

 3-4mm. long; calyx 2 bracteolate at base, rose color below, .be- 

 coming nearly white above, its tube cylindric, pubescent withiro 

 4mm. broad, 12mm. long, its lobes broadly o^^ate, rounded at 

 apex, 4-5mm. long; petals rounded, 2mm. broad, obscurely cor- 

 date at base, its claw very short; anthers nearly sessile, 2mm. 

 long: style 6-7mm. long, pubescent; berries becoming reflexed 

 at maturity on short pedicels, pubescent and rather sparsely be- 

 set with coarse gland-tipped hairs, apparently purple, icm. long. 

 Wilsoii's Peak and Pasadena Trail^ Los Angeles Co., No. 

 1525, April 15, 1901. 



This differs from the type in having larger and greener foli- 

 age, more glandular inflorescence and larger floral organs, and 

 like the type, it can easily be distinguished from R. glutinosum 

 Benth, by its pubescent style and reflexed fruit. R. glutinosiLm 

 has a glabrous style and the berries are on rather long, slender 

 spreading pedicels. 



This plant, fortunately so well described by Mr. Abrams, is certainly dis- 

 tinct from R. malvaceum, as may be seen by comparing the descriptions. It is 

 different in the leaf, which is barely or not at all rugose above with sessile glands 

 instead of strongly rugose, with stalked glands; under side of leaf merely pale 

 and glandular instead of covered with a dense, short tomentum; the floral or- 

 gans, except ^the petals and stamens, which are of equal size in both (2mm.) are 

 twice larger, the petals of different shape, and the stigma not two-lobed as it is 

 in R. malvaeeum. 



