186 ONAGRARIES. [Epilobium. 
This requires further investigation with more complete material. Some of 
the forms included in it by Haussknecht hardly differ from E.-glabellum, except 
in the more branching habit, paler colour, and longer stalked capsules, and 
would probably ‘be better placed under that species. Others (H. elegans, 
Petrie) have the stems simple or branched at the base alone, with much 
tee “Gk leaves, larger flowers, and the peduncles elongate considerably in 
-fruit 
2. FUCHSIA, Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or opposite or whorled. 
Flowers axillary, solitary or clustered, rarely in racemes or panicles, 
‘usually pendulous, often handsome. Calyx-tube ovoid, produced 
above the ovary into a tubular or companulate 4-lobed limb. 
‘Petals 4, often smail, rarely wanting, convolute, spreading or 
~reflexed. Stamens 8; filaments filiform; anthers linear or oblong. 
Ovary 4-celled; style slender, elongated ; stigma capitate, entire or 
-4-lobed ; ovules numerous, attached to the inner angle of the cells. 
- Berry ovoid or oblong, fleshy, 4-celled, many-seeded. 
A beautiful and well-known genus of about 60 species, all of which, with 
the exception of the three following, are natives of America, from Mexico to- 
Fuegia. 
* Flowers pendulous. Petals present, small. 
Shrub or tree 10-40 ft. high. Leaves lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate .. wt .. 1. F. excorticata. 
Small shrub with long straggling branches. Leaves ovate 
or orbicular-ovate .. at .. 2. F. Colensoi. 
** Flowers erect. Petals wanting. 
Stems very slender, trailing. Lxaves small, orbicular- 
ovate ae Xe Be ee fe .. 3. EF. procumbens. 
1. F. excorticata, Linn. f. Suppl. 217.—A shrub or small 
tree 40 ft. high; trunk usually 6-18in. diam., but sometimes reach- 
ing 2-3 ft.; bark thin, loose and papery; branches brittle. Leaves 
alternate, 2-din. long including the slender petiole, ovate-lanceo- 
late or lanceolate, acuminate, entire or obscurely and remotely 
toothed, thin and membranous, green above, pale and silvery 
beneath. Flowers 3-11in. long, axillary, solitary, pendulous ; pe- 
-duncles long, slender. Calyx- tube inflated at the base, then sud- 
denly contracted and again expanded into a funnel-shaped tube; 
lobes 4, acuminate, spreading. Petals 4, small. Stamens and 
style very variable in length. Berry oblong, purplish-black, juicy, 
4in. long.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 857; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 533 ; 
Raoul, Choix, 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 56; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 
75; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 36, 36a; Students’ Fl. 180. Skinnera ex- 
corticata, Forst. Char. Gen. 58; Prodr. n. 163; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. 
Gel. 331. 
NortH anp SoutH Isuanps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant from the North 
- Cape southwards. Sea-level to over 3000 ft. Native fuchsia; Kotukutuku ; 
the fruit Konini. August—December. Joa 
