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below the ovary, this, as well as the ovary and outside of the calyx glandular: 

 flower about 14mm. long, the tube cylindrical-campanulate, greenish, 3mm. 

 long, 4mm. wide across the top, lobes obiong-Ianceolate, icm. long, acute, 

 greenish without, maroon-purple within: petals white, 4mm. long, strongly in- 

 volute, somewhat toothed, cuneate when spread out: filaments white, awl- 

 shaped, 6mm. long; anthers j"elIow, slightly over 2mm. long, lanceolate with 

 slightly cordate base, the apex mucronate: style equalling or slightly exceeding 

 the opening calyx, cleft for 2mm. or more. 



The fruit of this species is, as described by Greene, large, densely clothed 

 with short, stiff, gland-tipped hairs. I have seen it only in the immature state, 

 when it appeared to be yellowish, and somewhat oval in shape, thus resembling 

 the fruit of J?. Vic/oris. 



28. Hibes sericeum Eastw. Proc. Cal. Acad. III. Bot. 2: 

 2^6. pi. 2^f. f. pa-pf. 1902. 

 Erect, branching shrub, several feet high; stem clothed with 

 ninnerous fine, v/eah, short prickles, which are gland-tipped on 

 the young shoots, al.so with short, close, silky pubescence; axil- 

 lary thorns three, orange-color, stout, united, the middle one 

 longest, more than icm. long, broadening at the base, pubescent 

 and glandular on the lower part, glabrous on the upper. Leaves 

 thin, three- to five-lobed, broadly ovate-orbicular, reniform or 

 truncate at base, 2-4cm. long, not quite so wide, incised crenate, 

 clothed with fine, white, silky hairs which are appressed or 

 spreading, also with fine gland-tipped hairs; petioles about as 

 long as the blades, more glandular and more spread! ng-pilose, 

 dilated only at the very base, and withotit the appearance of 

 stipules. Peduncles one- to three-flowered, slender, erect, with 

 pubescence like the petioles; pedicels about half as long; bracts 

 orbicular or three-lobed, foliaceous; bractlets similar but smal- 

 ler. Flowers 2cm. long, open-campanulate in the bud. Cal}^x 

 with the divisions at length reflexed, longer than the tube and 

 the ovary, oblong, purplish red, greenish near the apex, softly 

 silky villous on both sides; tube campanulate, veined, slight!}- 

 glandular at base. Petals white, 5mm. long, involute, erose 

 along the almost truncate apex. Stamens with filiform, purple 

 filaments, exserted beyond the sepals in the opening flower, and 

 also beyond the pistil; anthers narrowly linear-oblong, almost 



