Tas. 4233. 
FUCHSIA macrantua. 
Largeflowered apetalous Fuchsia. 
SF 
Nat. Ord. ONaGRARIEe.—OcTANDRIA MonoeGynIa. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tan. 4174.) 
Fucusta macrantha ; apetala, fruticosa pubescens, foliis ovatis acutis integerrimis, 
pedunculis axillaribus solitariis v. aggregatis unifloris, floribus pendentibus 
calycis tubo longissimo subcylindraceo superne sensim latiore limbo quadri- 
fido laciniis late ovatis erecto-patentibus, staminibus inclusis, ovario elongato- 
turbinato 4-sulcato, stylo exserto, stigmate capitato. 
If this be not the most brilliantly coloured of Fuchsias it 
certamly can boast the largest flowers, and it bears them more 
copiously than any other species. It is moreover quite an un- 
described species, first, however, found by Mr. Mathews, climbing 
on trees in lofty mountains at Andimarca, Peru (n. 1 197 of 
Mathews’ Collections), and it has been long in our Herbarium 
from that source, and next by Mr. Veitch’s collector, Mr. William 
Lobb, detected in woods near Chasula, Columbia, at an elevation 
of 5,000 feet above the sea. It was exhibited by Mr. Veitch 
at the Horticultural Society’s rooms, on the 7th of April, and 
attracted much attention. 
The absence of petals in the flower of our plant, and the 
imperfect descriptions of F. apetala, would at first lead to the 
supposition that it was that rare and splendid species, but if the 
two plants be compared, or if F. macrantha be compared with 
Ruiz and Pavon’s figure of F. apetala, the differences will be very 
apparent. It is quite a hardy Greenhouse species, and promises to 
succeed well in the open border in the summer months. As the 
season advances, the colour becomes more brilliant, and then the 
effect, with the numerous flowers quite concealing the stem and 
branches, is peculiarly striking. The plant seems scarcely to 
exceed two feet in height, and it is so free a flowerer that 
blossoms appear when the plant is only six inches high. 
Descr. A rather low, straggling shrub, the side branches _ 
JUNE Ist, 1846. 2x 
