is capable of being brought by skilful and attentive culti- ' 
vation. It is nearly hardy, flourishing most in a conserva- 
tory, where it may be just preserved from frost, and 
exposed to a free circulation of air. In a confined or over- 
heated situation the flowers refuse to expand. 
"In general habit this species is so different from any 
other Fuchsia in our gardens, that, before it flowered, 
doubts were entertained of its really belonging to that 
genus. One ingenious gentleman, indeed, fancied he had 
discovered that it did not even belong to the same natural 
order, but was a species of Lisianthus. A glance at the 
other South American kinds, which have not yet been 
introduced, might have spared such unprofitable specu- 
lation. 
The genus Fuchsia is capable of being advantageously 
divided into two distinct sections, of which F. tenella and 
gracilis may be considered the types of one, and this 
species and F. lycioides of the other. 
An arborescent, erect, branched shrub, with round 
branches, of which the old ones are cinereous, with a 
cracked bark, the young ones of a bright, delicate purple. 
Lean's «)p])()sitc, or whorled in threes or fours, oval, very 
smooth, acuminate, narrowed towards the base, very 
minutely toothletted at the edge ; petioles half-round, 
purple. Tliijrse terminal, many-flowered, nearly leafless, 
with round ascending branchlets. Bracteolce very small, 
deciduous. Calj/d' pink, with a short funnel-shaped tube, 
and a which is longer than the tube, and 4-parted; 
with oblong, acuminate, spreading segments. Petals 4, 
shorter than the calyx, oblong, apiculate, spreading, purple. 
Stamens a little shorter than jietals, unequal. Polio/ white. 
Stigma a little longer than stamens, 4-lobed ; lobes spread- 
ing, radiate, blunt. 
