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FUCHSIA radicans. 



Rooting Fuchsia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOOYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Onagrace^e. 

 FUCHSIA. Botanical Register, vol. 15, fol. 126'!) 



F. radicans; (Miers in litt.) caule prostrato radicante, foliis ellipticis acunii- 

 natis denticulatis glabris basi cordatis, floribus axillaribus geminis pen- 

 dubs, alabastro subrbombeo quadrangulari, petalis cuneatis tubo calycis 

 vix longioribus, stigmate capitato, bacca subrotundo oblonga. Bot. 

 Keg. 1841. misc. no. 167. 



Frutex Brasiliensis volubilis. Rami cuticidis solubilibus obtecti (jimiores 

 nitidi rubescentes glabri fioriferi) axillis radicantibus. Folia elliptica acumi- 

 nata, glabra, obsolete denticulata, 2-2-4 in qudque axilla. Flores bipollicares, 

 2-3-4, longe peduncidati, penduli, coccinei. Calycis tubus medio constrictus, 

 lobis patentibus subaquantibus. Petala/e/'t 1 inclusa, convoluta, violacea. Sta- 

 mina longe exserta, altema breviora. Stigma clavatum 4-lobum. Miers. 



" A long trailing perennial shrub, the stems of which, 

 much branched, attain a length of twenty feet and upwards : 

 these main stems are about half an inch in diameter, of a 

 pale brown colour, and rough from the irregular splitting of 

 the several coats of bark : the younger branches are purplish 

 and smooth, and those which are floriferous, present generally 

 smaller leaves. The nodose axils of the branches, after the 

 second year, throw out many stoloniferous shoots, which fre- 

 quently take root upon the trees on which the plant clings for 

 support. The root consists of a mass of long slender fibrils, 

 closely matted together. The leaves, sometimes opposite, 

 often three or four in each axil, are elliptic, roundish at base, 

 with an acuminate apex, three inches long by one and a half 

 broad, obsoletely denticulate, quite glabrous, except beneath 

 on each side of the midrib, where a little pubescence is seen. 

 The petiole is half an inch long, fleshy, terete, channelled 

 above, glabrous, and purplish red, which colour also shows 



