with much care; and beyond what we have already men- 
tioned we have discovered no peculiarity in this species, ex- 
cept that its ovula are unusually minute and arranged upon 
the placenta in an indeterminate number of rows ; while in 
such species of Fuchsia as we have examined they are never 
attached in more than two distinct rows. We therefore 
conclude, that the distinctly alternate insertion of the leaves 
does not, as would have been expected, indicate any corre- 
sponding peculiarity in the parts of fructification. 
We have compared the garden plant with wild speci- 
mens from the west coast of New Zealand in our own Her- 
barium, and we perceive no difference whatsoever in their 
appearance. 
The plant in our gardens is at present a shrub, but it is 
described as being in its own country a very smooth tree. 
The branches are smooth, rounded, when old throwing off 
their bark. Leaves always regularly alternate, on long 
stalks, smooth, ovate-lanceolate, at the base slightly cor- 
date, distantly toothed with glandular teeth, green and 
opaque above, very white beneath, but without any pubes- 
cence ; stipules small, ovate, acuminate, deciduous, pubes- 
cent. Flowers solitary, axillary, nodding, at first green, 
afterwards bright purple. Calyx superior, with a tube at 
the base dilated into a fleshy round knot, upwards funnel- 
shaped and bluntly four-cornered; its limb about the length 
of the tube, 4-parted, with ovate-lanceolate segments which 
are opposite the angles of the tube, spreading, 3-veined, 
with a very little- pubescence at their edges. Petals 4, 
small, ovate, dark purple, inserted into the bottom of each 
recess of the calyx. Stamens 8, erect, inserted in a single 
row into the upper part of the tube of the calyx, those 
opposite the petals shortest. Filaments very smooth, dark 
purple. Anthers oblong, turned inwards, 2-celled, open- 
ing lengthwise, with a fleshy gibbous connectivum, and 
green pollen hanging together by filamentous processes. 
Ovary smooth, oval, 4-celled, with many seeded cells. Style 
filiform, smooth, purple, the length of the stamens. Stig- 
ma yellow, capitate, at the end slightly hollowed out, its 
whole surface naked as far as its base. 
J. L. 
