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FUCHSIA radicans. 
hooting Fuchsia. 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRACER. 
FUCHSIA. Botanical Register, vol. 15, fol. 1269. 
F. radicans ; (Miers in litt.) caule prostrato radicante, foliis ellipticis acumi- 
natis denticulatis glabris basi cordatis, floribus axillaribus geminis pen- 
dulis, alabastro subrhombeo quadrangulari, petalis cuneatis tubo calycis 
vix longioribus, stigmate capitato, baccd subrotundo-oblonga. Bot. 
Reg. 1841. misc. no. 167. 
Frutex Brasiliensis volubilis. Rami cuticulis solubilibus obtecti (juniores 
nitidi rubescentes glabri floriferi) axillis radicantibus. Folia elliptica acumi- 
nata, glabra, obsolete denticulata, 2-2-4 in qudque axilld. Flores bipollicares, 
2-3-4, longe pedunculati, penduli, coccinei. Calycis tubus medio constrictus, 
lobis patentibus subequantibus. Petala feré inclusa, convoluta, violacea. Sta- 
mina longé exserta, alterna breviora. Stigma clavatum 4-lobum. Miers. 
‘‘A long trailing perennial shrub, the stems of which, 
much branched, attain a length of twenty feet and upwards: 
these main stems are about half an inch in diameter, of a 
pale brown colour, and rough from the irregular splitting of 
the several coats of bark : the younger branches are purplish 
and smooth, and those which are floriferous, present generally 
smaller leaves. ‘The nodose axils of the branches, after the 
second year, throw out many stoloniferous shoots, which ie. 
quently take root upon the trees on which the plant clings for 
support. The root consists of a mass of long slender fibrils, 
closely matted together. The Jeaves, sometimes opposite, 
often three or four in each axil, are elliptic, roundish at base, 
with an acuminate apex, three inches long by one and a half 
broad, obsoletely denticulate, quite glabrous, except beneath 
on each side of the midrib, where a little pubescence is seen. 
The petiole is half an inch long, fleshy, terete, channelled 
above, glabrous, and purplish red, which colour also shows 
