GLEANINGS 
0RIGINA1 
MEMORANDA. 
Fuchsia nigricak 
J j in den 
grcuihou 
with 
rose-coloured flowers, from the 
mountains of Central America. Introduced 
(Kg. 23.) 
Nearly allied to F. triphylla. Leaves placed in whorls of three, or 
occasionally opposite, pendulous flowers in leafy bunches at the end 
of the branches, and petals not rolled up when in bud. associate this 
with F. loxmsis and others inhabiting the chain of the Andes from 
N. Grenada to Peru. The present species was collected in the eold 
region of the province of Merida, at the heights of 2270 to 2600 
yards, growing in damp shady ravines, and flowering from May to 
November. Covered all over with slight grey down. Leaves in 
threes, short-stalked, and acuminate, somewhat glandular at the edge. 
Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves. Calyx rose-coloured, 
downy inside. Petals flat, deep violet, with a few scattered hairs at 
the back, lanceolate, acute, as long as the lobes of the calyx. 
Boutte's jPtore, t. 481. 
Van 
some 
LTNTEARIA. Lamarcl 
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Received from Jamaica at 
Kew, where it flowers in 
the summer and autumn. 
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