Ribes tortuosum Benth.

Ribes tortuosum Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 17. 1844
Ribe^ Palmeri Vasey & Rose, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 11 : 529. 1889.
A much-branched unarmed shrub, 1.2 m. high or less, the young shoots and petioles whitish-pub erul en t, the flowers unfolding before the leaves. Leaves glandular, nearly orbicular in outline, thin, 1.5-3 cm. broad, cordate or subcordate at the base, slightly 5-lobed, finely puberulent on both sides, the lobes rounded, irregularly crenate ; racemes 1-2 cm. long, 8-12-flowered, the peduncle short, stiff ; pedicels divaricate, stiff, about 2 mm. long, as long as the bracts; hypanthium cylindric, glabrous, or sparingly glandularhairy, 2-4 mm. long, longer than the oblong to obovate, reflexed-spreading sepals ; petals ovate, minute, much shorter than the sepals, barely 1 mm. long, equaling the stamens; ovary glandular-pubescent ; berry red, smooth, 6-8 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: San Quentin, Lower California. Distribution : Lower CaHfornia.