Ribes affine Kunth

Ribes rugosum Coville & Rose, in Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 8 : 300. 1905.
Ribes grande Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8 : 339. 1905.
An unarmed sbrub, 2-3.5 m. high, the young shoots glabrous or puberulent, and with sessile glands. Leaves suborbicular in outline, 3-5 cm. wide, 3-lobed or sometimes 5-lobed, tounded, taruncate, or cordate at base with an open sinus, glabrous above, pubescent and almost glandless beneath, the puberulent and glandular petioles mostly shorter than the blades, the lobes obtuse, irregularly crenate-dentate ; base of the petiole sometimes bearing stalked glands; racemes drooping, 7-12-flowered, pubescent; pedicels 3-6 mm. long, pubescent, mostly shorter than the oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, and glandular bracts ; hypanthium pubescent, shortcylindric, about 3.5 mm. long ; sepals oblong, greenish, obtuse, 2.5-3 mm. long ; petals orbicular, clawed, about 2 mm. long ; ovary glabrous ; berry globose-oblong, smooth, bluish-black.
Type locality : Santa F6, Valley of Mexico. Distribution : States of Mexico and Puebla.

Ribes affine H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6 : 60. 1823
Rides multifiorum H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6 : 60. 1823. Not R. multiflorum Willd. 1813.
Ribes Kunthii Berland. M^m. Soc. Geneve 32 : 60. 1826.
Ribes m-exicanum. Spreng. Syst. 4 : Cur. Post. 100. 1827.
Coreosm,a affinis Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 4 : 24. 1835.
Coreosma fnultijlora Spach, Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 4: 24. 1835.
Ribes AUam-irani Jancz, Bull. Acad. Cracovie 1906 : 10. 1906. (As to Pringle 6904.)
Unarmed, 1-3 m. high, the young twigs puberulent or glabrous. Iveaves thin, broadly ovate to orbicular in outline,, often rather longer than broad, 4.5 cm. wide or less, 3-lobed or sometimes 5-lobed, sparingly pubescent above but not glandular, even on the margin, pubescent on the veins beneath, the lobes ovate, mostly acute, irregularly dentate, the slender petioles as long as the blades or longer, puberulent, the dilated base bearing a few glandular hairs ; racemes pendulous, 6-12-flowered, shorter than the leaves ; pedicels pubescent, 5-8 mm. long, longer than or exceeded by the pubescent, oblong-lanceolate, somewhat glandular-hairy bracts ; h3^anthium campanulate, 2-3 mm. long; sepals obloiig, acutish, reflexed, 3-4 mm. long, pubescent without ; ovary glabrous ; petals nearly orbicular, 1.5 mm. long ; berry blue-black, smooth, about 8 mm. in diameter.
Type locahty : Near Moran, Mexico. Distribution : States of Hidalgo and Queretaro.