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FUCHSIA excorticata. 
New Zealand Fuchsia. 
nies 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRARIE. 
FUCHSIA. Supra fol. 847. 
F. excorticata, foliis alternis ovato lanceolatis subtus dealbatis, floribus axil- 
laribus solitariis: tubo basi strumoso. 
Skinnera excorticata. Forst. prodr. 163. 
F. excorticata. Linn. suppl. 217. Lamarck encyel. 2. 566. Willd. sp. pl. 
2. 340. Pers. syn. 2. 411. 
Rami leves, teretes, demum excorticantes. Folia semper alterna, longè 
petiolata, glabra, ovato-lanceolata, basi leviter cordata, distanter denticu- 
lata, dentibus glanduligeris, suprà viridia opaca, subtus dealbata, absque 
pubescentiá : stipulae parve, ovate, acuminate, decidue, pubescentes. Flores 
solitarii, axillares, cernui, primum virides, demum purpurei. Calyx supe- 
rus, tubo basi spherico, strumoso, tetragono, sursum infundibulari tetragono, 
limbo tubi longitudine, 4-fido: laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, angulis tubi oppo- 
sitis, patentibus, triveniis, ad margines parcé pubescentibus. Petala 4, 
parva, ovata, atro-purpurea, in imo sinu calycis laciniarum inserta. Stami- 
na 8, erecta, faciet tubi in eadem serie inserta, sinubus calycis opposita bre- 
viora ; filamenta glaberrima, atro-purpurea ; anthere oblonge, antice, bilo- 
culares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, connectivo carnoso, gibboso, polline 
viridi filamentoso. Ovarium glaberrimum, ovale, 4-loculare, loculis poly- 
spermis. Stylus filiformis glaber, staminum longitudine; stigma luteum ca- 
pitatum, apice obscure foveatum, omninó denudatum. 
Within less than a year have been introduced to this 
country not fewer than five new species of Fuchsia, of which 
this is certainly the most curious. It was raised at Mr. 
Colvill’s Nursery, from seed collected by Mr. J. Richardson 
in N. Zealand, where it was originally discovered by Fors- 
ter, who, mistaking the divisions of the calyx and the mi- 
nute petals for segments of a monopetalous corolla, sup- 
posed he had found the subject of a new genus, which he 
named Skinnera. 
From Fuchsia it differs in the remarkable and obvious 
circumstance of having alternate leaves; and apparently 
also in having the base of the tube of the calyx dilated into 
a large fleshy knot; but a tendency towards presenting the 
latter appearance is discoverable in some genuine species of 
Fuchsia. We have analyzed all the parts of fructification 
