doubt that the figure is intended for this plant, and Linnzus, 
in the first edition of the “Species Plantarum” (1753), 
took it up as Fuchsia triphylla. Shortly afterwards, in 
1758, Burmann published a series of plates of drawings 
made by Plumier in the West Indies and South America, 
including one of the Fuchsia (tab. 133, fig. 1). Other 
species of Fuchsia were soon added to the genus, and 
Lamarck (no doubt from finding the triphyllous character 
to be common to other species of the genus) in 1793 changed 
the name to I’. racemusa, without comment, which Des- 
courlitz in his “ Flora of the Antilles” adopts. Lastly, 
Kunth, in describing Humboldt and Bonpland’s South 
American collections, proceeding on the assumption that 
#. triphylla is a Continental American plant, doubtfully 
refers to it a triphyllous species from New Grenada, and in~ 
so doing is followed by De Candolle. 
The specimen here figured was sent to Kew by Messrs. 
Henderson, with the information that it was collected by 
Thomas Hogg in St. Domingo, where it forms a round bush, 
“not over eighteen inches high, every shoot of which is 
terminated by a raceme of orange-scarlet wax-like flowers.” 
Descourlitz’s figure is sufficiently characteristic, though he 
figures the flowers as erect, and the leaves as green beneath. 
He states that Plumier found it in uncultivated places, “ en 
allant du quartier de la bande du Sud, a celui qu’on nomme 
le Grand Cul-de-Sac,” adding that he has found it himself — 
often at St. Jago de Cuba. He attributes to it medicinal 
properties, amongst others the curing of certain intermittent 
fevers, and says that it is a powerful remedy in asthenic | 
derangements of the lymphatic system.— J. D, H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of under-surface of leaf; 2, calyx laid - 3 petal: 4 and-5, 
anthers; 6, style and stigma :~all enlarged. yx laid open; 3, petal; 4 and 9, 3 
