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FUCHSIA cordifolia. 



Heart-leaved Fuchsia. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 

 Nat. ord. Onagrace^. 

 FUCHSIA. Botanical Register, vol. 15, fol. 1269. 



F. cordifolia ; caule glabro, foliis oppositis v. ternatira verticillatis longe pe- 

 tiolatis late eordatis acuminatis denticulatis minute puberulis subtus 

 subglabris, pedicellis axillaribus unifloris folio brevioribus, calycis pube- 

 scentis longe tubulosi laciniis petala ovata brevissime acuminata sub- 

 duplo superantibus. Bentham PI. Hartweg. 74. no. 528. 



The species of Fuchsia, numerous as they are in gardens, 

 have still to be increased by some of the most interesting and 

 handsome. If the woods of Mexico and Chile, now almost 

 exhausted, have yielded us the species called thymifolia, mi- 

 crophylla, cylindrica, lycioides, fulgens, macrostema, gracilis, 

 and all their train of beautiful hybrids, we have still the rich 

 storehouse of the Cordilleras of Peru to investigate, from 

 whence F. corymbiflora only, itself a treasure, has as yet 

 appeared. 



For these we may confidently look to Mr. Hartweg, who is 

 now on his route from the Cinchona forests of Guayaquil to 

 the untrodden mountains of Popayan, and along all that richly 

 wooded district Fuchsias may be expected to abound. 



Not that more accessible countries are exhausted ; for in 

 the present number two new forms are published, one from 

 Mexico and the other from Brazil. The former, now before 

 us, is remarkable for the rich green which terminates the 

 scarlet flowers, which, if it takes something from their bril- 

 liancy, adds much to the novelty of their appearance. It has 

 moreover a fine broad foliage, and when out of flower is hand- 

 somer than the generality of its race. 



It was found by Mr Hart eg on Xetuch, a volcano in 



