Tas. 6839. 
FUCHSIA AMPLIATA. 
Native of the Andes of Heuador. 
Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIER. 
Genus Fucusia, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. i. p. 790.) 
Fucusta ampliata; caulibus petiolis pedicellisque puberulis, foliis ternatim 
verticillatis petiolatis elliptico-oblongis acutis remote denticulatis supra viri- 
dibus subtus viridibus v. rufescentibus glabris v. pubescentibus, floribus 
axillaribus solitariis 2—-3-nisve longe pedicellatis pendulis coccineis, ovario 
oblongo, calycis tubo 13-3-pollicari attenuato-infundibulari lobis ovato- 
lanceolatis triplo longiore, petalis calycis lobis brevioribus quadrato-rotundatis 
oblongisve obtusis, staminibus breviter exsertis, stylo hirto, stigmate globoso. 
F. ampliata, Benth. Plant. Hartweg. 178. 
Fuchsia ampliata is one of three handsome and large 
and scarlet-flowered very closely allied species, which 
inhabit the Andes of New Grenada and Ecuador, none of 
which have hitherto been figured, and only one of them 
has been introduced into cultivation. They are F. petiolaris, 
H. B. and K., of New Grenada, with lanceolate acute petals; 
F. corollata, Benth., from Columbia (Hartweg), with rounded 
obtuse petals longer than the calyx-lobes; and the plant 
here figured, with broad petals shorter than the calyx-lobes. 
Of these I’. ampliata is confined to the Andes of Ecuador, 
where it has been found near Quito, and on the volcanos 
of Pichincha and Pilzhum, by Jameson, Hall, Spruce (No. 
5501), Lobb, and Hartweg, forming a bush three to five feet 
high, at elevations of 10,000 to 13,000 feet above the sea. 
F. corollata inhabits the woods of Popayan, on the ascent 
to the Paramo de Guanacas, at 10,000 feet elevation. /. 
petiolaris (of which F. Quindiuensis 1s doubtless a pubescent 
variety) is confined to New Grenada, being found on the 
Andes of Ocana, Antioquia and the Paramo of Quindiu, at 
7000 to 10,000 feet elevation. All these vary from being 
nearly glabrous to tomentose, in the size of the flower, and 
turgescence of the calyx-tube. 
‘The specimen of F. ampliata, here figured, has a special 
oct. lst, 1885, 
