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FUCHSIA corymbiflora. 
Cluster-flowered Fuchsia. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRACER. 
FUCHSIA. Botanica! Register, vol. 15. fol. 1269. 
F. corymbiffora; folis oppositis ternisque petiolatis oblongis integerrimis 
tomentosis viridibus rugosis, corymbis terminalibus pendulis multifioris, 
calycis tubo longissimo infundibulari laciniis reflexis, petalis liberis pa- 
tulis acutis staminum longitudine. 
F. corymbiflora. FI. Peruv. v. 3. p. 87. t. 325. f.a. DeCand. Prodr. 3. 39. 
Mr. Standish, Nurseryman, Bagshot, who raised the 
Standish’s Fuchsia, figured at plate 2 of the present volume, 
has had the singular good fortune to introduce this noble 
plant. He states that he received the seed from some rela- 
tions at Montreal in Canada, who informed him that it was 
given them by a friend of theirs who had just come from 
Cusco in Peru, and who had been there for the purpose of 
trading, principally in saddles. It is uncertain whether this 
person collected the seed himself, or whether he saw it 
growing in some garden. 
In the Flora Peruviana the present species is spoken of as 
acquiring the height of a man, with a stem but little inclined 
to branch. It was found in the woods of Chinchao and 
Muna, places to the north-east of Lima, in shady situations. 
It is in this part of the world that the race of Fuchsias 
attains its greatest beauty, and developes those colours and 
forms which have gained for it among the Peruvians the name 
of Beauty-bush (Molle Ccantu.) Besides the subject of the 
present notice, several others of even finer appearance are 
mentioned by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, and remain 
among the greatest desiderata of Horticulture. F. serrati- 
folia is a bush with pink flowers an inch and half long, grow- 
