PLATE CXX. 



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Box Thorn-like Fuchjia 



CLASS 



VIII. 



ORDER 



I. 



OCTJNDRIA MONOGYNIji. Eight Chives. 



One Pointal 



GENERIC CHAKACTER. 



Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum. Infundi- 

 buliforme, coloratum, fuperum marcef- 

 censj limbus quadripartitus. 



Corolla* Petala quatuor, felTilia, ore calycis 

 inferta. 



Stamina. Filamcnta o6lo, inaequalia^ fillformia, 

 crefla, tubo calycis inferta. Antberae 

 ovatoe. 



PisTiLLUM. Gcrraen inferum, ovatum. Stylus 

 filiformis, ere6lusj longitudlne ftaminum. 

 Stifrma tuberculatum. 



pERtCARPIUJ 



loculnris 



Bacca carnofa, ovata, quadri- 



Semina plura, parva^ receptaculo columnari 



affixa. 



Empalement. Cup one leaf, funnel- fliaped, 

 coloured, above and withering^ border four 



divllions. 



Blossom. Four petals^ fitting clofe on the 

 mouth of the cup, into which they are in- 

 fer ted. 



Chives. Eight threads, unequal, thread-fliaped, 

 upright, fixed into the tube of the cup. 

 Tips egg-lhaped. 



Pointal. Seed -bud beneath, egg-fliaped. 



Shaft thread-lhaped, upright, the length of 



the chives. Summit compofcd of fmall 



knobs. 

 Seed-vessel. A fleflby berry, egg-fhaped, and 



four valves. 

 Seeds many, fmall, affixed to a pillar-fhaped 



receptacle. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Fuchfia foliis ovatis undulatis, fubterniS) pe- 

 dunculis unifloris, axillaribusj laciniis ca- 

 lycis reflexis. 



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Fuchfia with egg-ftiaped leaves, waved, and 

 growing moftly by threes ; foot-ftalks with 

 one flower growing from the infertlon of 

 the leaf, the fegments of the cup reflexed. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. A Flower cut open, to expofe the iufertion of petals and chives into the cup. 



2. The Pointal, complete. 



3. A ripe berry, natural (Ize. 



No plant perhaps ever excited fuch univerfal admiration, as the Scarlet Fuchfia; wherefore, the 

 addition of a fecond fpecies to our collections, of fo fine a Genus, mufl: be confidered as a very agree- 

 able acquifition. The Box Thorn-like Fuchfia, is a native of the North-wefl: coafl: of America j and 

 was firft brought to England, in the year 1796: it is certainly, much more tender than the Scarlet 



Fuchfia 



determine. 

 March, and 



plunged in a hotbed, or In the bark of the hothoufe, fix or eight in a pot; from which they may be 

 removed, about June, into large pots for flowering, which will be from Auguft till November. 



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F. triphjlla of Father Plumier. But as the F. coccinea, as well as this plant, has frequently the 

 leaves growing by threes; we thought that, ^s it as yet had no fpecific title with us, the charader ot 

 the plant would be beft diftinguifhed, by the name we have chofen. 



