12 Bota?iicalf Floricultural, and Arboricultural Notices, 



A very handsome species, which, though introduced so long since as 1816, 

 is not common in collections. The flowers are pink, and they are produced in 

 a dense raceme. The specific name alludes to the large leaf-like stipules. 

 It " is found in elevated rocky situations on the borders of CafFerland, at the 

 eastern limits of the colony ; " and it does not require " so great a degree 

 of summer heat as the plants from the neighbourhood of Cape Town." 

 (^Botanist, Nov.) 



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corymbiflbra Ruiz et Pavon cluster.flowered 3^ | sp 6 su S. Peru 1840. C. r.m Sot. 



This splendid plant was raised by Mr. Standish of the Bagshot Nursery, 

 from seed which he procured, through a friend at Montreal in Canada, fi'om 

 Cusco in Peru; and it is evidently the Fuchsia corymbiflora of the Flora 

 Peruviana. It was found by Ruiz and Pavon in the woods of Chinchao and 

 Muna, to the north-east of Lima, in shady situations. This country abounds 

 with many beautiful kinds of fuchsia, several of which are not yet introduced, 

 " and remain among the greatest desiderata of florticulture." {Bot. Beg., Dec.) 



In a communication which we have received from Mr. Standish, he informs 

 us that " this fuchsia is considerably more hardy than Fuchsia fulgens, and 

 indeed quite as hardy as any fuchsia in cultivation." The best way of growing 

 and flowering it, he tells us, is, to prepare a bed in the open garden with light 

 rich soil, in the month of May ; and as soon as all appearance of frost is over, 

 which will generally be about the end of that month, to turn the plant out into 

 a bed so prepared, when it will soon begin to grow, and form a massive ball 

 of roots and a handsome head. It may be left to flower in the open ground, 

 or, if desirable, it can afterwards be taken vip and planted in a pot, or in the 

 conservatory, without doing it the slightest injury ; such is the abundance of 

 fibrous roots that it produces close to the main root. Mr. Standish adds that 

 this plant is a very strong feeder, and can hardly have too much room to 

 grow in, or too great a depth of soil, or too rich a soil. Small flowering 

 plants, he says, may be obtained by taking off" cuttings when in a flowering state, 

 and planting them in thumb pots, placing each pot under a bell-glass. They 

 will strike root immediately, and by shifting them into larger-sized pots by 

 degrees, as in growing balsams, they will soon become large plants. The 

 house my plants are now in, he continues, " is kept from 43° to 55° of heat, and 

 the plants are as luxuriant in growth, as if it were now the height of summer. 

 I have a plant of F. fulgens in the same house, which is now ripening its wood 

 and becoming deciduous. F. corymbiflora is the strongest-feeding plant that 

 ever came under my notice. I think it almost impossible to give it too rich a 

 soil. In the month of January last, I placed a plant of it in a little heat ; and, 

 before F. fulgens had broken out at all, F. corymbiflora had made shoots 18 in. 

 long, which proved to me that this species was more hardy than F. fulgens ; 

 and I was thereby induced to turn a small plant out into the open ground in 

 the second week of June, the immediate and rapid growth of which I was quite 

 astonished to see. I was also induced to turn out my largest plant of F. 

 corymbiflora, which was growing freely, but was showing no symptoms of 

 flowering. This was a tall plant with only one stem ; but as soon as it was 

 turned out it began to branch and formed quite a head, and showed flowers in 

 about six weeks after being turned out; while the flowers of the former plant 

 first made their appearance about the middle of September. This plant is now 

 a noble specimen, having broken out with ten strong shoots. The diameter 

 of the plant is 3 ft., and its height 4^ ft. ; each shoot having a raceme of flowers. 

 My large plant is now 6 ft. high, but having only a single stem for 4 ft. in 

 height ; this makes it anything but a handsome plant. The cause of this plant 

 not branching out is the want of room above, and nourishment at the roots. 

 On reading the description in the Bot. Beg. of this plant, taken from the Flora 

 Peruviana, it is spoken of as acquiring the height of a man, with a stem little 

 inclined to branch. Now under the culture I recommend, I have no hesitation 

 in stating that it will branch out so as to form quite a bush ; and, if planted out 



