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FUCHSIA splendens. 

 Splendid Fuchsia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord, Onagrace^. 



FUCHSIA, h. Botanical Register, vol. 15. foL Tif)!). 



F. splendens ; sufFruticosa, pubescens, foliis oppositis ternatisque longe petio- 

 latis ovatis cordatis acuminatis denticulatis, pedunculis filiformibus soli- 

 tariis axillariljus, ovario cylindraceo tomentoso, calyce basi ventricoso 

 laciniis triangularibus acutis petalis ovatis planis patulis longioribus, 

 staminibus long^ exsertis. 



F. splendens. " Zuccarini in Flora, 1832. 2. Beibl. 102.'' fide Bentham PL 

 Hartweg. p. 61. no. 460. 



Fine a plant as F. fulgens is, we regard this as being still 

 more beautiful, because of the vividness of the scarlet and pale 

 green colours with which it is adorned. In habit it much re- 

 sembles it, and, in fact, was supposed at one time to be the 

 same species : but it evidently differs in many important cir- 

 cumstances. The leaves are much more heart-shaped, and 

 have a longer and more tapering point. The flowers have 

 much larger stalks, and have themselves far more of the cam- 

 panulate figure. The stamens moreover project a long way 

 beyond the mouth of the tube. When very young the foliage 

 and lengthening branches are quite hoary with down. 



The accompanying figure was made in the Garden of the 

 Horticultural Society, from plants produced by some of Mr. 

 Hartweg's seeds. It will probably be the hardiest of its race, 

 for it was found on the mountain called Totontepeque, at the 

 height of ten thousand feet above the sea, or little more than 

 5500 feet lower than the frozen summit of Mont Blanc. 



This species should neither be cultivated in very rich soil 

 nor in a large pot, for both these circumstances have a ten- 

 dency to prevent its flowering freely. It will grow well enough 

 in any free soil, and flowers abundantly in the early part of 



