1078 CONTRIBUTIONS FEOM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



Stamens longer than the petals ; flowers large, 3 to 7.5 cm. long. 



Flowers 5 to 7.5 cm. long 1. F. fulgens. 



Flowers (excluding the ovary) 3 to 3.8 cm. long. 

 Calyx tube glabrous within, not ventricose above the ovary; petals ovate- 

 rounded 2. F. intermedia. 



Calyx tube villosulous within, ventricose above the ovary ; petals lance- 

 ovate 3. F. splendens. 



Stamens shorter than the petals; flowers small, less than 2 cm. long. 



Flowers in terminal panicles, erect 4. F. arborescens. 



Flowers axillary, drooping. 



Young branches glabrous 5. F. bacillaris. 



Young branches variously pubescent. 



Calyx tube and ovary glabrous 6. F. microphylla. 



Calyx tube and ovary puberulent or pilose (sometimes very incon- 

 spicuously so). 

 Lobes of the calyx nearly or quite as long as the tube. 

 Lobes longer than the tube; flowers about 6 mm. long; leaves 



serrulate 7. F. minimiflora. 



Lobes equaling or slightly shorter than the tube ; flowers 8 to 12 mm. 



long; leaves mostly entire 8. F. thymifolia. 



Lobes of the calyx much shorter than the tube. 



Calyx tube obconic 9. F. pringlei. 



Calyx tube cylindric. 



Calyx hirsute or pilosulous 10. F. chiapensis. 



Calyx puberulent. 



Leaves serrulate 11. F. minutifl.ora. 



Leaves mostly entire 12. F. parviflora. 



1. Fuchsia fulgens DC. Prodr. 3: 39. 1828. 

 Michoacfln. 



Shrub, 0.3 to 1.2 meters high, with tuberous-thickened roots ; leaves long- 

 petiolate, broadly ovate or rounded-ovate, 8 to 17 cm. long, abruptly short- 

 acuminate, rounded or cordate at base, serrulate, thinly pubescent or glabrate ; 

 flowers in short racemes, glabrate ; calyx lobes 12 to 14 mm. long ; petals half 

 as long as the calyx lobes ; fruit ellipsoid, 2 cm. long or larger. " Adelaide," 

 " aretillo," " flor de arete." 



2. Fuchsia intermedia Hemsl. Diag. PI. Mex. 14. 1878. 



Type from Cumbre de Totontepeque, Oaxaca, altitude 3,000 meters. 

 Guatemala. 



Shrub, the branchlets puberulent ; leaves ovate or cordate-ovate, 10 to 12.5 

 cm. long, acuminate, obscurely denticulate ; flowers axillary, pedicellate, nod- 

 ding; calyx sparsely puberulent outside, the lobes half as long as the tube; 

 petals a third as long as the calyx lobes. 



3. Fuchsia splendens Zucc. Flora 18322; Beibl. 102. 1832. 

 Chiapas. Guatemala. 



Shrub, the branchlets pubescent ; leaves broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, 5 

 to 12.5 cm. long, acuminate, denticulate, pubescent ; flowers axillary, nodding ; 

 calyx pilosulous, the lobes half as long as the tube; fruit 3.5 cm. long or 

 even larger. 



4. Fuchsia arborescens Sims in Curtis's Bot. Mag. pi. 2620. 1826. 

 Fuchsia paniculata Lindl. Gard. Chron. 1856: 301. 1856. 

 Fuchsia Uebmanni L^veille, Bull. Geogr. Bot. 22: 24. 1912. 

 Michoacdn to Veracruz and Chiapas. Central America. 



