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LXXX. EIBESIACB^. 



LXXX. RIBESIACEJE. 



(Cactoeum genus, jMssiew.— Gkossulakie^, D.C.— Geossulace^, Lindl.) 



Currant. Diagram. 



Currant. (Jixbes i^tibrum.) 

 Inflorescence (mag.). 



Ciin'ant. 

 Seed cut vertically (mag.). 



Currant. 

 Bacemes of fruits. 



Currant. 

 Flower (mag.). 



Currant. 

 Vertical section of flower (mag.). 



Ribes Uva-crispa. 

 Transverse section of fruit (mag.). 



CoEOLLA polypetalous, epigynous, isostemonous, (Estivation imbricate. Stamens 

 5, inserted alternately with the petals. Ovaet inferior, 1-celled ; placentas parietal. 

 Ovules horizontal, anatropous. Feuit a berry, Embkto albuminous. — Stem woody. 

 Leaves scattered or fascicled. 



Shetjbs, unarmed, or armed with, infra-axillary or scattered spines ; branches 

 eylindric or angular. Leaves scattered or fascicled, simple, petioled, palminerved, 

 often glandular, folded or convolute in bud ; petiole channelled, dilated at its base. 

 Flowers 5 , or often imperfect through arrest, regular, usually racemed, and termi- 

 nating in very short leafy or sometimes leafless branchlets or buds ; pedicels 2-brac- 

 teolate, jointed near the top. Calyx coloured, marcescent, superior, eylindric, cam- 

 panulate or cupular, 6-4-fid. Petals inserted on the throat of the calyx, alternate 



