XXXII. GROSSULA‘CEE: RIBES. 485 
lobes acute, serrated. Petioles long, serrated at 
the base. Racemes drooping. Calyx campanu- 
late. Petals longer than the calyx. Flowers white. 
Berries black. (Don’s Mill.) A shrub. Nepal, on 
Emodi and Gossainthan. Height 4 ft. to bit. In- 
troduced in 1823. Flowers white ; April and May. 
Fruit black ; ripe in July. Hort. Soc. Garden. 
© 39. R. rne‘Brians Lindl. The intoxicating 
Currant. 
Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1471. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 190. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1471.; and our Jig. 882. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves roundish, deeply 3—5-lobed, 
and deeply toothed, truncate at the base, glandular 
on both surfaces. Petioles pubescent. Peduncles 
3—5-flowered, pendulous. Flowers aggregate. Calyx 881. R. glacidle. 
tubular, glandular, with the 
segments recurved. Calyx 
greenish white, with the tube 
4 lines long. Leaves smelling 
like those of #. fldridum. ( Don’s 
Mill.) Anupright shrub. North 
America. Height 3 ft. to 4 ft. 
Introduced in 1827. Flowers 
greenish white; April. Fruit 
amber-coloured ; ripe in July. 
This species was received from 
Mr. Floy of New York, under the 
name of the intoxicating currant, 
but without any other account of 
its properties. The berries may 
probably possess some narcotic 
quality. 
a 40. R.ce‘rEum Dougl. The waxy-leaved Currant. 
Identification. Dougl. in Hort. Trans., 7. p. 512.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 190. 
Engravings. Bot. Reg., t. 1263. ; and our jig, 883. 
Spec. Char., &c. Leaves small, cordate, 
lobed, serrated, clothed with glandular 
pubescence, glabrous, glaucous, full of white 
glands above. Racemes pendulous, rather 
capitate. Bracteas ovate, adpressed to 
the germens, which are glabrous. Flowers 
nearly sessile, cylindrical, rather angular. 
Calycine segments small, reflexed. (Don’s 
Mill.) Alow bush. North-west America, 
on the banks of the Columbia, and its 
southern tributary streams, from the Great 
Falls to the Rocky Mountains. Height 2 ft. 
to 3ft. Introduced in 1827. Flowers 
whitish; April. Fruit amber; ripe in 
July. 
In its small foliage and few-flowered ra- 
cemes, this species resembles the gooseberry 
tribe ; but it has no thorns. The flowers Ae 
are rather large and white, with a slight 883. R, cdreum. 
tinge of green, and are rather downy. White waxy dots like scales cover the 
upper surface of the leaf ; whence the specific name. 
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