FUCHSIA. 



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FIG. XXXII. Fuchsia coccinia : 2. vertical section of a flower. 



the plant, is represented by adventitious fibers issuing or 

 "striking" here and there from the lower joints of the slip 

 (severed branch) which remains as planted. The stem, 

 although woody, is weak, slender, reclining, with smooth 

 purplish bark and drooping branches. The leaves are 

 neatly cut, smooth, pinni-veined with reddened veins, op- 

 posite, ovate, serrate and petiolate. 



The JF'2owers issue either singly from the axils of the 

 leaves, or clustered at the end of the branches, always droop- 

 ing on slender peduncles. They are regular, perfect, sym- 

 metrical, 4-parted. The calyx is colored in contrast with 

 the corolla, its tube inclosing, and adherent to, the ovary 

 below, and opening into 4 lanceolate sepals above, bearing 

 on its throat the 4 erect, convolute petals and the 8 long, 

 exserted stamens. The style is free from the calyx tube, 



