* FUCHSIA fulgens. 

 The glowing Fuchsia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



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Nat. ord. Onagrace^. \ «iCAL 



FUCHSIA. Bot. Reg. vol. 10. fol. 847. flAKOBN 



F. fulgens ; rarnis glabris, foliis oppositis cordato-ovatis acutis denticulatis 

 glabris, pediculis axillaribus flore brevioribus superioribus racemosis, calycis 

 lobis ovato-lanceolatis acutis petala acutiuscula superantibus. DC. prodr. 

 3. 39. 



Frutex glaber, glaucus, tener, densh foliosus, colore vinoso tinctus. 

 Caulis textures herbacect subsucculentce. Folia tenuia, ovata, cor data, acuta, 

 dentata s. denticulata, ciliata, petiolo semitereti canaliculato levissime 

 pubescente duplo longiora. Flores solitarii, ex axillis foliorum superiorum 

 penduli, racemum secundum efficientes . Pedunculi filiformes, semipollicares. 

 Ovarium oblongum, pubescens, polyspermum, 4-loculare, ovulis biseriatis. 

 Stylus fliformis, exsertus ; stigma capitatum, conicum. Calyx 2| pollices 

 longus, infundibularis, basi ventricosus, leviter pubescens, miniatus ; laciniis 

 triangularibus, acutis, planis, apice virescenlibus. Petala ovata, obtusa, 

 plana, sepalis paulb breviora, sanguinea. Stamina 8 ; fauce inserta, sepalis 

 breviora ; ea petalis opposita paulo breviora : antheris scepius extrorsum 

 resupinatis. 



* See Bot. Regist. fol. 1269. It will be observed that an alteration in the 



plan of accenting the names of plants is now for the first time introduced into 

 this work ; a few words are desirable in explanation of this. It is by no means 

 easy to point out by typographical signs in what way words are to be accented ; 

 and the usual plan of indicating by a ' the syllable on which the accent is to be 

 placed in pronouncing the word is by no means efficient ; nor does it appear that 

 the introduction of the x as an additional sign, is of any real advantage to the 

 unlearned reader, for whose use alone such contrivances are required. I there- 

 fore think that in substituting the ordinary metrical signs of long (~ ) and short 

 ("""J for the usual accentual marks, at least nothing will be lost, and that probably 

 something may be gained ; provided it is only remembered that these signs are 

 used to express accent, and not what is technically called quantity ; that is 

 the — is placed over the vowels of syllables on which accent is placed, and the 

 ^ over those on which no stress is laid by the voice. It will necessarily often 

 happen that syllables are marked "- which are rhythmically ^, but I cannot 

 anticipate any inconvenience from this, after the explanation that such signs are 

 merely employed here to indicate the more important accented or unaccented 

 syllables, and not their actual quantity. 



Jan. 1838. b 



