Skinneriane » N. O, Onagrarie.’ 
TAB. CDL. 
FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA. (Benth.) £3. 
Caule glabro, foliis oppositis v. ternatim verticillatis longe 
petiolatis late cordatis (ovatisve) denticulatis minute puberulis 
subtus subglabris, pedicellis axillaribus unifloris folio brevio- 
ribus, calycis pubescentis longe tubulosi laciniis petala ovata 
brevissime acuminata subduplo superantibus. Benth. 
Fuchsia cordifolia. Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 74. . 528. Lindl. 
Bot. Reg. 1841. t. 70. 
f. foliis ovatis. (Tas. Nostr. CDL.) 
Has. Guatemala. G, U. Skinner, Esq. On Zetuch, a volcano 
in the same country, at an elevation of 10,000 feet above the 
level of the sea. Hartweg. 
It is so long since I had the impressions printed of the plate 
of this fine species of Fuchsia from Mr. Skinner's specimen, 
that it has now been introduced to our gardens, and has ee 
cently been published, both from Hartweg’s dried specimens 
and from those that have flowered in our green houses. Our 
plant indeed does not deserve the name of cordifolia, the leaves 
being decidedly ovate, not heart-shaped, whence I have thought — a 
it better to consider this a variety, 4 
