Fuchsia.| — ONAGRARIEA). 187 
_ The flowers are trimorphic, there being a long-styled form in which the 
stamens have short filaments and often abortive anthers, and mid-styled and 
short-styled forms in which the stamens have longer filaments and perfect 
anthers, the last two apparently graduating into one another. For a detailed 
account see a paper by Mr. Kirk in the Transactions of the New Zealand Insti- 
tute, vol. xxv., p. 261. 
9. F. Colensoi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 728.—A small shrub 
with long straggling branches, sometimes producing slender tlexu- 
ous unbranched shoots several feet in length. Leaves alternate, 
very variable in size, 4-2 in. long including the petiole, ovate or 
orbicular-ovate, rounded or cordate at the base, thin and mem- 
branous, entire or obscurely toothed ; petioles often longer than the 
blade. Flowers much as in F’. excorticata, but shorter and pro- 
portionately broader, and petals smaller.— Kirk, Students’ Ft. 181. 
NorvtH aND SoutH IsLaANDSs, STEWART IsLAND: From the Northern Wairoa 
River southwards, but often local. Sea-level to 1500 ft. October—February. 
A very variable plant, large forms of which almost pass into F’, excorticata. 
3. F. procumbens, R. Cunn. ex A. Cunn. Precur. n. 534.— 
Stems very slender, much branched, prostrate and trailing, often 
several feet long. Leaves alternate; blade +-%in. long, rounded- 
ovate or almost orbicular, cordate at the base, ovscurely sinuate- 
toothed, membranous ; petioles very slender, longer than the blade. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, erect, 4-2in. long; peduncles short, 
i-Zin. Calyx-tube cylindric, without raised ridges, pale-orange ; 
lobes sharply reflexed, purple at the tips, green at the base. Petals 
wanting. Stamens erect,’ always exserted; filaments slender. 
Style longer or shorter than the stamens, or equal to them. Berry 
large, oblong or obovoid, 2 in. long, bright-red, glaucous.—Hook. Ic. 
Plant. t. 421; Raoul, Choiz, 49; Hook. f. Fl., Nov. Zel. i. 57; 
Handb. N.Z. Fi. 76, 728; Bot. Mag. t. 6139; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 
181. F. Kirkii, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant. t. 1083. 
NorrH Is~tanp: Sandy and rocky places near the sea, rare and local. 
North Cape district, J. ddams and T. F. C.; Ahipara, #. J. Matthews! 
Matauri, A. Cunningham; Whangaruru, Kirk! Whangarei Heads and near 
og led T. F. C.; Cape Colville Peninsula, J. Adams! Great Barrier Island, 
irk ! 
A beautiful and graceful little plant, remarkable for being the only species 
known with erect flowers. As in F’. excorticata, the flowers are trimorphic, 
In the long-styled form the flowers are smaller and narrower, much less brightly 
coloured, the style is exserted far beyond the anthers, the stigma is very large, 
and the anthers rather smaller. The mid-styled and short-st,led forms appear 
to vary into one another: in the first the style usually equals the anthers, in 
the second it is shorter and included within the calyx-tube. The stamens are 
of equal length in all the forms. 
OrperR XXX. PASSIFLOREA.. 
Climbing herbs or shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves usually alter- 
nate, entireor lobed or palmately divided, stipulate ; petiole generally 
provided with giands. Tendrils often present, axillary. Flowers 
