( 4000 ) 



Fuchsia corymbiflora. Cluster-flow- 

 ered Fuchsia. 



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Class and Order. 



OcTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



( Nat. Ord. — Onagrari^e. ) 



Generic Character. 



Calycis tubusbasi ovario adhaerens, superne productiis in 

 tubum cylindraceum 4-loburn post anthesin articulatirn 

 deciduum. Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, 

 rarius o. Stamina 8. Ovarium gland ula urceolata coro- 

 natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca ob- 

 longo- aut ovato-globosa 4-locularis 4-valvis polysperma. 

 — Prutices. Folia scepius opposita. Pediculi axillares 

 \-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemosi. Flores sce- 

 pius nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum b-jidi, 10-andri. 

 DC. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Fuchsia corymbifiora ; pubescens, foliis oppositis ternisque 

 petiolatis ovato-oblongis acuminatis reticulatim veno- 

 sis, corymbis longissimis terminalibus pendulis, pedi- 

 cellisbasifoliolosis, calycis tubo longissimo infundibu- 

 liformi laciniis acuminatis reflexis, petalis acuminatis 

 staminum longitudine. 



Fuchsia corymbiflora. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. 3. p.Hl. 

 t. 32b. f. a. De Cand. Prod. v. 3. p. 39. Spreng. Syst. 

 Veget. 2. p. 235. 



Commenced in the year 1786 —it may be said of the 

 " Botanical Magazine/' what, assuredly, can be said o no 

 other periodical work of descriptive Natural History, that 



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