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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



less fleshy, and petals sessile and contorted. In Skmnera formerly 

 generically distinguished, the petals are small and sometimes even 



wanting. When they exist, they are 



Fuchsia ampliata. 



either, as in Fuchsia proper, con- 

 torted and contiguous, or expanded 

 as in EticUandra. 2 The latter has, 

 moreover, polygamous flowers. These 

 variations have served to arrange in 

 three different sections, the species, 

 about forty in number, constituting 

 the genus Fuchsia, which are shrubs 

 or small delicate trees, sometimes sub- 

 shrubby plants from Mexico, South 

 America, chiefly the western parts, 

 also from New Zealand, with opposite, 

 verticillate or alternate leaves, gene- 

 rally petiolate, eutire or dentate, 

 and with elegant flowers, 5 axillary, 

 solitary or fasciculate, more rarely 

 united in corymbs or terminal clus- 

 ters, simple or compound, sometimes long and flexible, charged with 

 small cymes, with the peduncles or floral pedicels generally long 

 slender and pendant. 



Fig. 439. Long. sect, of flower. 



1 Eufuchsia. — Fuchsia Spach, Sait, à Buffon, 

 iv. 404. —Eierschlcyeria, Spach, loc. cit. 403, JV. 

 Ann. Mus. iv. 330. — Schufia Spach. S. à Buffon, 

 411. — Desmoul. Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxiv. 

 — Ellobium Lilja, Linncea, xv. 262. — Spachia 

 Lilja, lue. cit. (not A. Juss.). — Nahusia Schnee. 

 Ic. n. 21. — Quelusia Vandell. — Velloz. Fl. 

 Flum. iv. t. 6. — Dorvalia Commeks. (ex Endl.). 

 —Thilco Feuill. Obs. iii. 64, t. 49. 



2 Zucc. Abh. Bayer. A had. Wiss. ii. 335. — 

 Myrinia Lilja, Linncea, xv. 262. — Brebissonia 

 Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. set. 2, iii. 175; Nouv. 

 Ann. Mus. iv. 329; Suit, à Buffon, iv. 401.— 

 Lyciopsis Spach, Nouv. Ann. Mus. iv. 329. 



3 Endl. loc. cit.—B. H. Qen. 791 : 1. Enctian- 

 dra : flowers polygamous ; petals open ; stamens 

 short ; 2. Eufuchsia : flowers hermaphrodite ; 

 petals none or convolute ; Btamens exserted ; 3. 

 Skinnera : flowers hermaphrodite; petals little 

 developed ; seeds small. 



4 R. et Pav. Fl. Per. iii. 86, t. 322-325.— H. 

 B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 103, t. 534-536.— 

 Cambess. A. S.-B. Fl. Bras. Mer. i. 272.— Pkesl. 

 Bel. Bcenk. ii. 26.— C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 349.— 

 Hook. p. Man. N.-Zeal. Fl. 728.— Hook. Icon. t. 

 421. — Hemsl. Journ. Bot. [1876] 67.— Bot. Reg. 

 t. 857, 1269, 1480, 1805 ; (1838), t. 1, 60 ; (1840), 

 t. 18, 70 ; (1841), t. 66, TO.— Bot. May. t. 2507, 

 3364, 3948, 3999, 4174, 4082, 4233, 4375, 5907, 

 6139.— Walp. Rep. ii. 94 ; v. 666 ; Ann. i. 292 ; 

 ii. 535 ; iv. 6S1. 



5 Red, pink, violet, or white. The calyx, 

 rarely greenish, sometimes of two tints, is often 

 coloured the same as the receptacle. These 

 flowers often become double in culture, by the 

 mutiplication of the petals. We have also seen 

 each of the sepals or some of them prolonged 

 externally in a sort of basilar spur, descending, 

 curved or straight, hollow or flat. 



