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coating, rather thick, with funicle very inflated, gelatinous. Ripens at 

 the end of June. Fruit falls as soon as it is ripe. Germination more rapid 

 than in other bisexual currants, in 22 to 50 days. Native of eastern Man- 

 churia (Ussuri) in forests. R. ussuriense resembles in structure of its 

 flowers the European black currant, rather than the Asiatic, but it differs 

 so much in its aroma, its longer bracts, the color of its flowers, the ex- 

 posed sepals, and by the production of subterranean branches, that we do 

 not hesitate to consider it as a twin species and not as a simple variety of 

 R. nigrum. We have received it from three locations in eastern Man- 

 churia, and have grown seeds from Chabarowsk. The floral buds are very 

 sensitive to winter cold. They were all frozen in the winter in 1904-1905, 

 and almost all in 1905-1906-1907." (E. Janczewski, Monographie des 

 Groseilliers, p. 349.) 



40489. Ribes valdivianum Philippi. 

 " 7525." 



" Robust shrub, 3 meters high or more, with young shoots rather thin, 

 very pubescent, dotted with yellow glands, year-old shoots dropping their 

 outside bark like the red currant and becoming almost green. Leaves 

 not leathery, almost all falling in autumn and winter, ovoid-rounded, 



6 cm. long, 51 cm. broad, 3 to 5 lobed, middle lobes strongly predominant, 

 with truncate or subcordate base, cuneiform in the small leaves, pubescent 

 in youth, finally glabrous above, dotted with yellow glands and pubescent 

 on the nerves beneath. Male racemes arched, almost pendent, up to 



7 cm. long, rather loose, or more crowded, bearing as high as 40 flowers. 

 Sometimes the basal flower is replaced by a secondary raceme 3 cm. long, 

 with 15 flowers. Flowers campanulate, with the five sepal nerves promi- 

 nent, yellow, the base of the tube greenish, pubescent. Female racemes 

 unknown. Fruiting racemes up to 9 cm. long, bearing up to 25 flowers, 

 bracts persistent, reflexed, 5 mm. long. Pedicels 4 mm., pubescent. 

 Bractlets none. Fruit oboval, 6 mm. long, 4 mm. broad (round and black 

 according to Gay), pubescent, glandular, crowned with withered flowers 

 contracted into a wisp. Native of the Province of Valdivia in Chile, 

 where the shrub is called Pulul or Parilla and the fruit TJvilla. Philippi 

 has already distinguished one variety, sessiliflorum, which is distinguished 

 from the type by the long racemes, 4 to 10 cm. long, bearing 30 to 60 

 flowers, and by the subglabrous, subsessile flowers, dotted even on the 

 teeth of the calyx with very numerous glands. It is found in Chiloe and 

 even, according to Philippi, in the Province of Valdivia." (E. Janczewski, 

 Monographie des Groseilliers, p. 445.) 



40490. Ribes velutinum X quercetorum. Gooseberry. 

 " 7518." 



"R. velutinum Greene is a shrub 1 to 11 mm. high, young shoots velvety, 

 dotted with glandular bristles. Nodal spines simple or ternate, up to 

 18 mm. long, sometimes pubescent at the base. Leaves small, rounded 

 reniform, 8 to 30 mm. long, 11 to 35 mm. broad, 3 to 5 lobed, or 3 to 5 

 fid, deeply dentate, the base truncate, similar to those of R. microphyllum 

 and R. leptanthum, pubescent, often glandular. Flowers small, orange 

 yellow, or white, velvety. Fruits small, purple-black, glabrous, pubescent 

 or dotted with pediceled glands, crowned with withered flowers, fastened 

 into a wisp. Seeds small. Germination in January and February, after 



