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FUCHSIA serratifolia. 
Saw-leaved Fuchsia. 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRACER. 
FUCHSIA. I. 
F. serratifolia ; foliis ternis quaternisque ovato-lanceolatis dentatis glabris, 
floribus solitariis axillaribus, tubo calycis basi inflato limbo dupló lon- 
giore, petalis ovatis staminibus subæqualibus sepalis brevioribus, stigmate 
capitato ovato quadrilobo. 
F. serratifolia, Ruiz $ Pav. Fl. Peruv. 3. p. 86. t. 323. f. a.  DeCand. 
Prodr. 3. 39. 
Nothing attracted the attention of the visitors at the last 
meeting of the Horticultural Society more strongly, than a 
very fine plant of this beautiful new Fuchsia, which seems 
likely to surpass all that have been yet imported. 
It has a noble aspect. The large leaves are of a deep rich 
indigo green, the effect of which is greatly heightened by the 
gay rose colour of their stalks and midrib. The flowers are 
between two and three inches long, of a very deep clear rose 
colour, most intense at the bottom, becoming paler upwards, 
and at last melting into a delicate green at the ends of the 
sepals. The petals are of the most vivid vermilion. Although 
the flowers appear singly from the axils of the leaves, yet 
their size is such as to render them very conspicuous objects, 
and moreover it appears probable that every leaf will produce 
its flower, all over the branches. 
For its introduction from Peru the country is indebted 
to the enterprise of Messrs. Veitch of Exeter, by whom it 
was exhibited, and to whom we owe the branch from which 
this figure has been prepared. We have a specimen out of 
Dombey’s herbarium, without a locality; but, according to 
the Flora Peruviana, it grows in damp and shady places at a 
place called Muna, where it forms a shrub two or three ells 
August, 1845. R 
