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* FÚCHSIA díscolor. 
Port Famine Fuchsia. 
LA vL 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRACER, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 56.) f 
FUCHSIA.—Supra, vol. 10. fol. 847. 
F. discolor ; dumosa, ramosissima, vinosa, ramulis levissimè pubescentibus, foliis 
ovatis denticulatis undulatis petiolatis oppositis ternatisque, pedunculis foliis 
longioribus, petalis obtusis convolutis calycis laciniis acuminatis brevioribus, 
staminibus longè exsertis. 
A native of Port Famine in the Falkland Islands, whence 
it was some years since introduced by Mr. Lowe. Our draw- 
ing was made from a plant in the Garden of the Horticultural 
Society in August last. It has the same season of flowering 
as the other Fuchsias, and may be increased readily by 
cuttings in like manner. 
If we are asked to state in what respects this differs 
botanically from F. gracilis and tenella, we should find it 
very difficult to answer the question. And yet it 1s a 
decidedly different plant; remarkable for its compact, bushy 
manner of growth, its deep purple branches, its small very 
undulated leaves, and also for its being apparently more 
hardy than any other Fuchsia yet in the Gardens. For the 
latter reason we attach especial importance to it, for by a 
judicious intermixture of its pollen with such beautiful plants 
as F. conica, globosa, and its other more tender relatives, 
the whole race may probably be rendered capable of bearing 
* See folio 1269. 
