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FUCHSIA corymbiflora. 

 Cluster-fiowei'ed Fuchsia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Onagrace^. 



FUCHSIA. Botanical Register, vol. \5.fol. 1269. 



F. corymbiflora ; foliis oppositis ternisque petiolatis obloiigis integerrimis 

 tomentosis viridibus rugosis, corymbis terminalibus pendulis multifloris, 

 calycis tubo longissimo infundibulari laciniis reflexis, petalis liberis pa- 

 tulis acutis staminum longitudiue. 



F. corymbiflora. Fl. Perm. v. 3. p. 87. t. 325./. a. DeCand. Prodr. 3. 39. 



Mr. Standish, Nurseryman, Bagshot, who raised the 

 Standish's Fuchsia, figured at plate 2 of the present volume, 

 has had the singular good fortune to introduce this noble 

 plant. He states that he received the seed from some rela- 

 tions at Montreal in Canada, who informed him that it was 

 given them by a friend of theirs who had just come from 

 Cusco in Peru, and who had been there for the purpose of 

 trading, principally in saddles. It is uncertain whether this 

 person collected the seed himself, or whether he saw it 

 growing in some garden. 



In the Flora Peruviana the present species is spoken of as 

 acquiring the height of a man, with a stem but little inclined 

 to branch. It was found in the woods of Chinchao and 

 Muna, places to the north-east of Lima, in shady situations. 



It is in this part of the world that the race of Fuchsias 

 attains its greatest beauty, and developes those colours and 

 forms which have gained for it among the Peruvians the name 

 of Beauty-bush (Mollc Ccantu.) Besides the subject of the 

 present notice, several others of even finer appearance are 

 mentioned by the authors of the Flora Peruviana, and remain 

 among the greatest desiderata of Horticulture. F. serrati- 

 fulia is a bush with pink flowers an inch and half long, grow- 



