Tas. 4506. 
FUCHSIA sBaciuaris. 
Red-branched Fuchsia. 
Nat. Ord. ONAGRARIEZ.—OcTANDRIA MOoNoGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4082.) 
Fucusta bacillaris ; ramulis glabris, foliis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis denticulatis 
deciduis glabris, pedunculis axillaribus subtrifloris folio longioribus, calycis 
tubo cylindraceo, laciniis ovatis acuminatis petala obcordata patentia api- 
culata subeequantibus, staminibus subinclusis, stylo exserto, stigmate glo- 
boso 4-dentato, fructu subgloboso. 
Fucusta bacillaris. Lindl. Bot. Reg. ¢. 1480. 
A native of Mexico, and, as may be expected, a greenhouse 
plant. It has been for some time cultivated at Kew. Our 
specimen here figured was communicated by Mr. Veitch from 
his rich garden at Exeter, and is really a pretty thing when 
well cultivated. It flowers during the summer months. 
Descr. A low deciduous shrub: the. branches with reddish 
bark ; younger twigs green. Leaves. opposite or ternate, lanceo- 
late or ovato-lanceolate, entire or denticulato-serrate, small, 
nearly sessile, penninerved. Peduncles axillary, from one- to three- 
flowered. Flowers on slender, drooping pedicels, springing from 
the copious upper and younger branchlets, and thus forming a 
rather large, leafy ¢hyrsus or compact panicle. Ovary glabrous 
(as is every part of the plant), red, globose. Calya also deep 
red: its tube cylindrical, contracted where it unites with the 
ovary, and spreading upwards into four ovato-acuminate seg- 
ments. Petals deep rose, subobcordate, spreading, nerved, 
bearing a blunt mucro at the retuse apex. Stamens eight ; four 
nearly equal with the throat of the flower, four others more 
exserted. Style much exserted, longer than the longest stamens. 
Stigma globose, four-cleft. W. J. H. 
Cunt. This very distinct species of Fuchsia is, like the rest of 
the genus, of very easy cultivation. It requires to be protected 
during winter by keeping it in a cool pit or house. Established 
APRIL Ist, 1850. 
