STOVE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS 



The drooping tubular flowers, 2 to 3 in. long, are soft rosy scarlet, 

 the petals of a deeper shade. It is now seldom met with outside 

 Botanical Gardens. 



FUCHSIA x DOMINIANA. 



The Florist, 1855, pi. 96; Fl. des Serres, 1854-1855, torn. x. pi. 1004. 



Eaised by John Dominy in 1852 from seed obtained by crossing the 

 two fine species Fuchsia spectabilis and F. serratifolia multiflora. 



The flower tube is some 2 in. in length, coloured bright scarlet; the 

 spreading calyx lobes of a pinkish colour on the inner surface. 



FUCHSIA MACBANTHA, Hook. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4233 ; Gard. Chron. 1846, p. 238 (Report of Exhibition) ; Paxt. Mag. Bot. 

 vol. xiii. p. 97 ; Fl. des Serres, 1846, pi. xix. 



This handsome species was first discovered by Mr. Mathews climbing 

 on trees in lofty mountains at Andinamarca, Peru, and he sent home 

 Herbarium specimens, and later detected by William Lobb, in woods 

 near Chasula, Columbia, at an altitude of 5,000 ft. 



Plants, flowered at Exeter for the first time in 1846, were exhibited 

 at the Horticultural Society's rooms in April of that year. 



The flowers are without petals, but the long tubular calyx is brightly 

 coloured rose-red, changing to cream-white at the apices of the four-cleft 

 limb. 



FUCHSIA SEKRATIFOLIA, Ruiz & Pav. 



Bot. Mag. t. 4174 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1845, t. 41 ; Fl. des Serres, 1849, p. 447 ; The 

 Garden, 1877, vol. xi. p. 70. 



This species, one of the handsomest for greenhouse culture, raised 

 from seed collected in moist shady situations at Mufia in Peru by 

 William Lobb, flowered for the first time in April 1845. 



The young deep red shoots and large flowers, 2 to 3 in. long, single 

 on long stalks from the axils of the leaves, are most striking, and when 

 first exhibited before the Horticultural Society was awarded a Silver-gilt 

 Medal as a plant of exceptional merit. 



FUCHSIA SIMPLICICAULIS, Ruiz & Pw. 



Bot. Mag. t. 5096 ; The Garden, 1877, vol. xi. p. 70 j Fl. des Serres, 1858, torn. iii. p. 179. 



Introduced from Peru through William Lobb, and flowered for the first 

 time at Chelsea in 1858. 



The calyx tube, sepals, and petals, are brilliant red in colour, the 

 showy blooms in dense drooping clusters at the termination of the 

 branches. 



261 s 



