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Fucusia piscotor. Port-FAmIneE Fucusta. 
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Class and Order. 
OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—OnaGrarIE&. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calycis tubus basi ovario adherens, superne productus 
in tubum cylindraceum 4-lobum post anthesin articulatim 
deciduum.  Petala 4 summo tubo inserta lobis alterna, 
rarius 0. Stamina 8. Ovarium glandula urceolata coro- 
natum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma capitatum.  Bacca ob- 
longo- aut ovato-globosa, 4-locularis, 4-valvis, polysperma. 
—Frutices. Folia se@pius opposita. Pedunculi axillares 
1-flori, interdum ad apices ramorum racemost. Flores s@- 
pius nutantes, rubri rarius albi, interdum 5-fidi 10-andri. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Fucusta discolor ; ramis brevibus densis compactis strictis, 
foliis ternis longiuscule petiolatis ovato -lanceolatis 
nitidis denticulatis subcomplicato-carinatis, floribus 
folio multo longioribus, staminibus exsertis, stigmate 
ovali. 
Fucusta discolor. Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1805. 
Fucusra Lowei. Afort. 
The difficulty of discriminating those different kinds of 
Fuchsia, now so common in our gardens, of which F’. ma- 
crostemma of the Flora Peruviana may be considered the 
original type, has been felt by every one who has turned 
his attention to the subject; and this difficulty has been 
increased by cultivation and the skill of the horticulturist 
in fertilizing one kind with the farina of another ; so that 
what few characters were supposed to exist to entitle them 
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