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II. Ribes indecorum Eastw. Proc. Cal, Acad. III. Bot. 2: 

 243- P^- 23.f.3a. jb. 1902. 



Shrub with erect stems, having dark brown, shreddy bark 

 on the older growth, the younger parts tomentose and glandular. 

 Leaves three-lobed, 2-4 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, finely rugose- on 

 the upper surface, clothed with stipitate glands, and a fine, 

 sparse, silky pubescence; lower surface white with a felt-like 

 tomentum, and with a few gland-tipped hairs on the veins; mar- 

 gins irregularly, doubly crenate; petioles stout, shorter than or 

 equalling the blades, glandular and tomentose, the stipular dila- 

 tion (as wide on each side as the petiole) fringed on the margin 

 with uneven, gland-tipped hairs. Inflorescence racemose, spread- 

 ing or pendent, in fruit surpassing the leaves; flowers sessile but 

 erect; peduncles short; bracts foliaceous, almost equalling the 

 flowers, lanceolate, 6mm. long, 2mm. wide, with the margins 

 fringed with long, gland-tipped hairs. Peduncles stout, glandu- 

 lar, and tomentose. Flov/ers at base subtended by two mem- 

 branous, glandular, and tomentose bracteoles, calyx-tube more 

 than twice as long as the broad, rounded divisions; these tomen- 

 tose and glandular on both sides, almost 2mm. wide; petals or- 

 bicular, reniform, imm. wide, crenulate, on very short and broad 

 claws. Stamens as long as the petals, on stout, short, deltoid 

 filaments; anthers .75mm. long, longer than the filaments. 

 Style stout, hairy at base, two-cleft at apex, with broad, yellow 

 stigmas; ovary tomentose and somewhat glandular. 



Collected by the author at Cajon Heights, near San Diego, 

 California, March 14, 1891. There is also a specimen in the 

 Herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences collected by 

 Dr. George Thurber at San Pasqual, San Diego County. It is 

 labeled Ribes sanguineum^ No. 606. 



Ribes indecorum is nearest to Ribes inalvaceiun^ but differs 

 most noticeably in the much smaller and sessile flowers. The 

 floral organs, too, are not the same. 



