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slender petioles, the branches terminated with loose racemes of small 

 rose-pink or sometimes white flowers (only ]-' in diameter), on slender 

 pedicels from the axil of leafy bracts, produced all summer, followed by 

 very small round pods: 



10. FUCHSIA. (Named for L. Fuchs, an early German botanist.) 

 Well-known, ornamental, tender, shrubby plants, or even trees, chiefly 

 natives of the Andes from Mexico to Fuegia, mostly smooth, with oppo- 

 site or ternately whorled leaves. The best known species are the fol- 

 lowing : ^ Erect-flowered species. 



*- Floicers solitary ; plant dioecious. 



F. procumbens, R. Cunn., from N. Zealand, is a trailing species with 

 small ovate leaves which are very light colored beneath, and small, apet- 

 alous, axillary flowers, with an orange calyx tube, and spreading or at 

 length reflexed, dark-purple, obtuse lobes. 



-- -i- Flowers in a naked and compound terminal panicle-like cluster, 

 perfect. 



F. arborescens, Sims. TREE F., from Mexico ; a stout shrub, with 

 oblong or lance-oblong entire leaves, acute at both ends and usually 

 whorled ; flowers light rose-color, %' long, with narrow, oblong, widely 

 spreading calyx lobes, and spreading petals rather longer than the tube, 

 about as long as the stamens and style. 



* * Drooping-flowered species. 



f- Short-flowered Fuchsias or Ladies' Eardrops, with the lobes of the nor- 

 mally red calyx longer than the tube and than the petals; the latter 

 normally violet or blue, obovate and retuse, convolute around the base 

 of the projecting filaments and still longer style ; flowers hanging on 

 long peduncles from the axils of the leaves. Common conservatory 

 and house plants. 



F. macrostemma, Ruiz & Pav. The common species, in many forms ; 

 has dentate leaves on slender petioles ; calyx tube oblong or short-cylin- 

 drical, more or less shorter than the spreading lobes. The species now 

 greatly varied in color ; some varieties with calyx white or light and the 

 petals deeply colored, some with the reverse ; also double-flowered, the 

 petals being multiplied. Chile. F. coccfNEA, F. MAGELL,ANICA, F. cov- 

 ICA, F. GRACILIS, and F. GLOB6SA are now commonly referred to this 

 species, although the last, with globular or ovoid calyx tube and nearly 

 globular small flowers, is perhaps specifically distinct. 



-*- -t- Long-flowered Fuchsias, with trumpet-shaped or slightly funnel- 

 shaped tube of the calyx 2 '-3' long, very much longer than the spread- 

 ing lobes, which little exceed the acute or pointed, somewhat spreading 

 petals ; stamens and style little projecting ; flowers crowded into a rather 

 close, drooping raceme or corymb at the end of the branches; leaves 

 large, 5'-7' long. The following species are seen only in choice 

 collections. 



F. fulgens, Mo. & Sesse, from Mexico ; smooth, with ovate, somewhat 

 heart-shaped leaves, and scarlet flowers, the lance-ovate calyx lobes often 

 tinged with green. 



F. corymb/flora, Ruiz & Pav., from Peru ; mostly pubescent, with lance- 

 oblong and taper-pointed, almost entire leaves, and red flowers, the lance- 

 olate calyx lobes and the lance-oblong petals taper-pointed, at length 

 widely spreading. 



