TAB. 4375. 
FUCHSIA sprcrasiuis. 
Showy Fuchsia. 
Nat. Ord. ONaGRrarRtE#.—Ocranpria MonoGyyta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4082.) 
Fucusta spectabilis; ramis succulatis obtuse angulatis, foliis ternis amplis ovato- 
ellipticis petiolatis subacuminatis glanduloso-subdenticulatis ciliatis subtus 
ramisque purpureis, pedunculis petiolum squantibus solitariis unifloris, 
floribus intense coccineis, calyce subhypoerateriformi, tubo longo basi 
inflato-globoso, laciniis ovato-acuminatis, petalis patentissimis subrotundis 
undulatis segmentis calycinis brevioribus, ovario oblongo sulcato, stigmate 
magno 4-lobo. 
From the collection of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, Exeter, who 
gratified the Members of the Horticultural Society by the exhi- 
bition of it at their rooms in Regent Street, April 18th, 1848, 
when the large silver medal of the Society was awarded to it. 
It was then stated to be the F Lowrensis of Humboldt, and 
one of the handsomest Fuchsias yet in cultivation, its dark 
green leaves and brilliant scarlet flowers, with which the white- 
lobed stigma nicely contrasts, rendering it extremely attractive : 
to this character of its beauty may be added the blood-red 
colour of the flowering branches, and rich purple of the under- 
side of the leaves, contrasted with the almost velvety rich green 
of their surface. I have only to dissent from its being con- 
sidered the F. Lovensis * of Humboldt, whose figure (Gen. et 
Sp. Pl. vol. vi. t. 536) is certainly quite at variance with our 
plant, as is the F. Zovensis, Benth. in “Plante Hartwegiane, 
n.733. ‘The form and size of the leaves, and the size of the 
flowers, and, above all, of the stigma, are strikingly different 
* Ihave the pleasure of being authorized to say that Dr. Lindley is now quite 
of this opinion. He had indeed been previously misled by the wild specimen sent, 
to aid in the determination of the species, which belonged to another species, 
namely to FP. Loxensis ;—a fact that has just been stated in the Gardeners’ Chro- 
= (May 13th, 1848), where the species is announced as “certainly a magni- 
t thing : the Queen of Fuchsias.” 
JUNE 1st, 1848, . 
