70 CORREAS. 
XI.—THE CORREAS 
AND ALLIED PLANTS. 
Wirx all wish to maintain vernacular names, which are not 
actually misleading, I cannot call a Correa by the common 
colonial name “native Fuchsia,” as not the slightest structural 
resemblance and but little habitual similarity exists between 
these plants ; they indeed belong to widely different orders. If 
a Fuchsia in any garden is compared with a Correa and also a 
plant of the Myrtle-family, it will at once be apparent, that its 
affinity is really much greater to the latter than to what popularly 
passes here as Fuchsia. It ought to be an aim of every educa- 
tional establishment to banish appellations, which arose from 
totally erroneous conceptions or distort the logic meanings of well 
understood objects. All languages are rich enough, to construct 
from them names free from ambiguity and devoid of aptness to 
cause confusion. The Correas received their name with a view of 
commemorating the merits of Correa de Serra, a Portuguese 
nobleman, who wrote at the beginning of this century on rutacedus 
plants, to which this genus belongs. The Correas are not only 
remarkable for their beauty, but also for the structural organiza- 
tion of their flowers, which introduces exceptionally into an order 
of plants with disjointed petals the tubular (monopetalous or 
synpetalous) corolla of such orders of which Goodeniacez, 
Campanulaceze, Hriceze and Composite (see foregoing pages) 
are examples. Similarly in other orders occur genera with free 
and with coherent petals; of this are well-known Australian 
instances Galium and Asperula among Rubiaceze, Viscum and 
Loranthus (among Loranthacez), Notelea (spurious Olive) and 
Ligustrum (Privet) among Oleacee, Lysinema and Epacris 
among Hpacrideee, Samara and Myrsine among Myrsinex. ‘This 
is particularly mentioned here, to impress on the student, that in 
a natural arrangement of plants (such as that of Jussieu) not a 
solitary characteristic can be implicitly relied on, as in any 
artificial system (such as that of the great Linné), but that the 
