514 PENTANDRIA MQNOGYNIA. Ribti, 



withered remains of the flower, red, faintly striped, equalling a 

 common red currant in size, of a sour and astringent taste. 



Qbs. This species comes very near to R. alpinum, and is interme- 

 diate between that and R. nigrum. It differs chiefly in the larger size 

 of ajl it« parts especially the leaves and flowers ; the finely acumi- 

 nate leaves and lengthened style. The variety with small leaves is 

 much more like the former. My friend Dr. Qovau thinks that there 

 are two species concealed among the shrubs I have described above ; 

 one with very small, acute, trilobed or obscurely five-lobed leaves; 

 the other with large five-lobed, very finely, almost caudato-acumi- 

 uate leaves. In the event of this supposition being confirmed, the 

 last mentioned shrub may be called R. acuminatum. I have hir 

 thertoin vain attempted introducing the plant into the botanic garden; 

 even in the valley of Nipal the experiments of Mr. Gardner, directed 

 to that object, have failed. — N. VV. 



2. R. villosum, Wall. 



Unarmed, younger branches, leaves, and racemes villous, glandu-* 

 ]ar and viscous. Leaves rounded, obscurely cordate, obtuse, three- 

 lobed, serrate, rather longer than their petiols. Racemes erect; bractes 

 lanceolar, longer than the pedicels. Berries villous. 



Found on the mountains to the North of Slireenifguf and commu- 

 nicated by my plant-collector Kamroop. 



Unarmed. Branches flexuose, greyish ; while young villous. 

 Leaves round, scarcely emarginate at the base, very obtuse, threes or 

 live-lobed, serrate, giand-ciiiate, from an inch to an inch and a hajfiu, 

 diameter, copiously beset with short, soft, subulate hairs, exuding 

 a resinous substance, which hardens into small shining dots, espe- 

 cially on the under surface of the leaves ; live-nerved, veined, longer 

 than their villous and viscous petiols. Stipules, none, except the wid- 

 ening base of the petiol.— Fruit-bearing racemes axillary, solitary, 

 erect, longer than the leave*. Peduncle gland-villous, as are altfo 

 the sub-persistent lanceolar bractes ; the latter longer than the pedj,, 

 eels.— Berry round, villous, seemingly red, of the sire of a red cur- 

 rant,, crowned with a short, villous, calycine tubs. 



