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(long-styled form); Kawerua, Hokianga, Dr. Cockayne (form not stated) ; 
Ahipara, T. F. C. (long-styled form) ; Waihi, fifteen miles north of Ahipara, T. F. C. 
(mid-styled and short-styled forms); coast near Houhora and near Cape Maria, 
T. F. C. (form not recorded) ; between the North Cape and Parengarenga, abundant, 
T. F. C. (mid-styled and short-styled forms). From the above it will be noticed 
that Mr. Kirk’s belief that the different forms never grow intermixed is not correct. 
At Ahipara all three forms occur within fifteen miles of one another, if not nearer ; 
and two of them grow side by side at Waihi. At the same time, it is most remark- 
able that one form alone—the short-styled—has yet been found to the south of the 
Bay of Islands. 
Mr. Kirk also states that fruit is seldom seen on the mid-styled and _ short- 
styled form in cultivation, and never in the wild state. But I have cultivated the 
mid-styled form (and no other) in my garden for more than twenty years, and 
every year fruit has been produced in comparative abundance. I have seen as 
many as forty ripe berries at one time on a single plant. And I understand that 
the experience of other cultivators has been the same. It is therefore clear that, 
so far as the mid-styled form is concerned, it is not necessary for the production 
of fruit that the flowers should be fertilized by pollen from one of the other forms. 
I much regret that neither of the two other forms has been in cultivation in 
Auckland for some years past, and that consequently I am unable to say whether 
they also ripen their fruit in gardens. As regards the production of fruit in the 
wild state, all my visits to the localities where the plant exists have been too early 
in the season for me to obtain it. But Mr. A. J. Osborne informs me that the 
short-styled form ripens fruit freely at Tryphena Harbour, and I am assured that 
fruit is regularly observed on all the forms in the North Cape district. 
It is much to be desired that some horticulturist would cultivate the three 
forms of F. procumbens and ascertain what results would follow if they were inter- 
crossed. It must be admitted that the fact that the mid-styled form is fertile with 
its own pollen, and that the stamens are of the same length in all the forms, is 
opposed to the idea that the case is one of pure heterostylism as usually under- 
stood. We require to know if there are differences in the pollen of the three forms ; 
if some of the unions are fertile and others infertile—in short, whether the forms 
are specially adapted for reciprocal fertilization. Until such proof is obtained 
it is perhaps reasonable to suppose that the long-styled form, with its larger 
stigma and somewhat smaller anthers, is simply a variety advancing in the direc- 
tion of becoming a female plant; while the short-styled variety, with its smaller 
stigma and more abundant pollen, is in a similar way tending in the direction of 
becoming purely male. 
PuatE 56. Fuchsia procumbens. A, mid-styled form, drawn from specimens cultivated at Auck- 
land; B, short-styled form, from specimens collected at Tryphena Harbour, Great Barrier Island, 
by Mr. A. J. Osborne; C, from specimens gathered in Ahipara Bay, North Cape district. Fig. 1, 
section of flower (mid-styled form); 2 and 3, front and back view of anthers from same; 4, section 
of ovary ; 5, section of ripe fruit; 6, seed; 7, embryo; 8, section of short-styled form; 9, section 
of long-styled form (the stigma is usually larger and further exserted than represented by the artist). 
(All the figures enlarged.) 
