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FUCHSIA gracilis. 
Slender Fuchsia. 
Pa c 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRARIZ. 
FUCHSIA, L. Cal. superus infundibuliformis: limbo 4-partito, cum 
ovario articulatus, coloratus deciduus. Petala 4, summo tubi inserta, 
wqualia. Stamina 8, ibidem inserta, alterna longiora. Anthere oblonge, 
dorso affix. Ovarium 4-loculare ; loculis oligo-aut polyspermis. Stigma 
clavatum, indivisum ? vel 4-lobum. Bacca 4-locularis, oblonga aut globosa, 
nuda; loculis oligo-v. polyspermis. Frutex foliis oppositis, (raro alter- 
nis), sepius ternis, denticulatis, rarius integerrimis; floribus axillaribus pe- 
dunculatis interdum in ramulis racemosis, plerumque coccineis, pendulis. 
Kunth synops. 3. 394. 
F. gracilis, ramis tenuissim? pubescentibus, foliis oppositis glabris longe 
petiolatis remotè denticulatis, petalis retusis, staminibus exsertis, floribus 
foliis multo longioribus. 
F. decussata.Graham in Edinb. Phil. Journal. 11. 401! Bot. mag. 2501! 
non Fl. Peruviane. 
Frutex ramosus, brachiatus, virgatus. Rami adulti cinerei epidermide 
deciduá, juniores teretes, rubicundi, penduli, subsecundi, pube tenuissimá 
obducti. Folia lanceolata, denticulata, longè petiolata, ramulorum minora 
et magis ovata, utrinque glaberrima, petiolis semi-teretibus, suprà canalicu- 
latis, pilosiusculis, rubicundis. Flores in ramulorum axillis terminalibus so- 
litarii v. binati, pedicellis longis tenuissimis penduli, foliis majoribus multò 
longioribus. Calyx coccineus, elongatus, laciniis longis acutis. Petala pur- 
purea, retusa, imbricata, calyce breviora. Stamina longé exserta, 4 ceteris 
longioribus. Filamenta glabra, filiformia. Stylus tenuis filiformis, stigmate 
fusiformi clavato. 
This fine species of Fuchsia was raised from Mexican 
seed, in the Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, in 1822; 
whence a figure was obtained for the Botanical Magazine, 
in which work it has been published, p. 2507, under the 
name of F. decussata. With the figure of the species so 
named in the Flora Peruviana, this has indeed some cha- 
racters in common ; but not such as to induce us to con- 
sider the two identical. That they are really distinct is, 
however, proved by the original specimens of Ruiz and 
Pavon, preserved in the Herbarium of Mr. Lambert, which 
we have had, through the kindness of that gentleman, the 
advantage of consulting. From these specimens it appears, 
that the F. decussata is a small shrub, with considerable 
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