Tas. 5096. 
FUCHSIA  simpuicicavtis. 
Slightly-branched Fuchsia. 
Nat. Ord. ONaGRARIEH.—OCTANDRIA Monoeynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4082.) 
Fucusra (§ Longiflora) simplicicaulis ; parce ramosa glabra, ramis floralibus 
elongatis pendentibus, foliis 3—4-verticillatis lanceolatis seu ovato-lanceolatis 
. acuminatis brevi-petiolatis integerrimis subnitidis subtus pallidis, racemis 
foliosis, floribus ternis quaternisve rosev-coccineis, tubo elongato infundibu- 
liformi basi inflato-gibbosa, sepalis lanceolatis petala ovata acuta coccinea 
superantibus. 
Fucusta simplicicaulis. Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Chil. et Per. v. 4. p. 89. t. 322 a. 
De Candolle, Prodr. v. 3. p. 39. 
The genus Fuchsia includes a considerable number of species, 
but the difficulty of naming them correctly is, beyond anything, © 
great ; and this difficulty arises in part from the liability of these 
plants to vary much in their inflorescence, size, and the shape as 
the flowers, and in part from brief and imperfect descript: 
The present species is one of the many beautiful Peruviai a5 
new to our collections, which Mr. William Lobb sent to his em- — 
ployers, Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the Nurseries at Exeter and 
Chelsea, and which in many respects corresponds with the 7. 
simplicicaulis of Ruiz and Pavon; the flowers quite correspond 
in size and shape, and the whorl of flowers is subtended by a 
corresponding whorl of large foliaceous bractes, or small leaves ; 
but in Ruiz and Pavon’s plant the leaves and the bracteas are all 
lanceolate, and even rather narrow-lanceolate, and the whorls are 
figured and described as always quaternate, whereas in our plant 
the leaves and bracts are ternate, and rather ovate than lanceo- 
late, and the latter close over the pedicels so as to form a cup- 
Shaped involucre. Some of our native dried specimens, indeed, 
sufficiently accord with Ruiz and Pavon’s plant; but others 
Seem gradually to pass into the F. venusta of Humboldt and 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1859. 
