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THE GENUS FUCHSIA. 



[part I. 



may be considered the type, the calyx and the 

 corolla are of different colours. In Jig. 32, 

 which shows a flower of F. discolor, the Port 

 Famine Fuchsia, the calyx {a) is scarlet and 

 the most ornamental part of the flower, while 

 the petals (h) are purple, and wrapped over each 

 other. The ovary (c) is green, 

 and when the petals and calyx 

 fall ofl", it swells into a berry, 

 which becomes of a dark pur- 

 ple when ripe. F. glohosa 

 differs from F. coccinea in the 

 flowers being shorter and 

 more globose, while the limb 

 of the calyx curves inward. 

 In F. macrostemma^ a well- 

 known Fuchsia, the lobes of 

 the limb of the calyx are, on 

 the contrary, recurved, that 

 is, turned backwards. This 

 formation is common, more or less, to several 

 other species. In F. excorticata, the New Zealand 

 Fuchsia, there is a large fleshy knot at the base 

 of the calyx, and strong ribs running up the 

 lobes ; the calyx is green when young, but it 

 afterwards becomes crimson ; and the petals 

 are very small. This species is so different from 

 the others, that it was at first described as a 

 new genus, under the name of Skinnera. The 



Fig. 32.— Fuchsia 

 discolor. 



