FUCHSIA CYLINDRACEA. 
CYLINDRICAL FUCHSIA. 
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NATURAL ORDER, ONAGRACER, 
Artificial divisions OCTANDRIA, 
to which MONOGYNIA, 
this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 189. 
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CALYCIFLORE, 
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DECANDOLLE. 
NUS. Focusia. Linnavs. Catyx basi ovario adherens, superne pro- 
ductus in tubum cylindraceum quadrilobum, post anthesin articulatim deci- 
r, summo te i 
uum. 
Stamina octo. Ovartum glandula urceolata coronatum. Srvyxuvs filiformis, 
Stiema capitatum. Bacca oblongo- vel ovato-globosa, quadrilocularis, quad- 
rivalvis, vel indehiscens, polysperma. Frurtices foliis sepius oppositis, one 
cellis axillaribus unifloris soled ad apice, ramorum racemosis, floribus sx 
pius rubris. 
SPECIES. Focusra i igen (LIwDLey.) © Fruticosa, ranegns vix 
puberulis, foliis petiolati undu- 
latis, floribus axillaribus epee vix brevioribus abortu dioicis, petalis ob- 
tusissimis truncatis concoloribus, stylo exserto, staminibus inclusis, alternis 
flexis. 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Fucnsia. Catyx adhering at the 
ase to the ovary, produced above it into a cylindrical four-lobed 
tube, which falls off after the flowering. PETALs four, inserted between 
the lobes at the top of the tube of the calyx, rarely wanting. Sra- 
MENS eight. Ovary crowned by an urceolate gland. Sty e filiform. 
STIGMA capitate. Berry oblong, ovate, or globular, four-celled, many- 
seeded, opening in four valves, or sometimes indehiscent. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SPECIES, FUCHSIA CYLINDRACEA. STEM 
shrubby, two or three feet high. Brancues red, somewhat compres- 
sed, the young ones slightly hairy. Leaves opposite, stalked, ovate, 
blunt, much waved, but otherwise entire, the margins rolled back, 
from half an inch to an inch, or an inch and a half long, slightly 
hairy when young, smooth when full grown, green above, pale under- 
neath, and often acquiring a reddish hue. STIPULES minute, spread- 
ing, subulate when young, afterwards reduced to a gland-like tubercle. 
Pepice.s axillary, solitary in the specimens we have seen, though re- 
presented two or three together by our artist, from half an inch to 
nearly an inch long, one-flowered, without bracts, usually reddish, and 
slightly hairy when young. FLowers diecial by the abortion of some of 
the Catyx about half an inch long, cylindrical, of a fleshy con- 
sistence, scarlet, the lobes ovate, pointed, tipped with green. PerTats 
very broad, blunt and truncate, and sometimes slightly toothed, shorter 
