PLATE CXX. 



FUCHSIA LYCIOIDES. 

 Box Thorn-like Fuclifia. 



CLASS VIII. ORDER I. 



OCTANDRIA MONOGYN1A. Eight Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 

 Calyx. Perianthium monophyllum. Infundi- 



buliforme, coloratura, fuperum marcef- 



cens; limbus quadripartitus. 

 Corolla. Petala quatuor, feflilia, ore cal)'cis 



inferta. 



Stamina. Filamenta o£to, inasqualia, filiformia, 



erec~ta, tubo calycis inferta. Antherce 



ovatae. 

 Pistillum. Germen inferum, ovatum. Shlus 



filiformis, ere&us, longitudine ftaminum. 



Stigma tuberculatum. 



Pericarpium. Bacca carnofa, ovata, quadri- 



locularis. 

 Semina plura, parva, receptaculo columnari 



affixa. 



CHARACTER. 



Emtalement. Cup one leaf, funnel-fhapcd, 



coloured, above and withering; border four 



divifions. 

 Blossom. Four petals, fitting clofe on the 



mouth of the cup, into which they are in- 

 ferred. 

 Chives. Eight threads, unequal, thread-fhaped, 



upright, fixed into the tube of the cup. 



lips egg-fhaped. 

 Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, egg-fhaped. 



Shaft thread-fhaped, upright, the length of 



the chives. Summit compofed of final] 



knobs. 

 Seed-vessel. A flefhy 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, axillaribus; laciniis ca- 

 lycis reflexis. 



Fuchfia with egg-fhaped leaves, waved, and 

 growing mofily by threes; foot-ftalks with 

 one flower growing from the infertion of 

 the leaf, the fegments of the cup reflexcd. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



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



2. The Tointal, complete. 



3. A ripe berry, natural fize. 



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, rauft be confide red as a very agree- 

 able acquifition. The Box Thorn-like Fuchfia, is a native of the Xorth-weft coatt of America; and 

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

 Fuchfia, as the plant conltantly perifhes, as low as to the earth, if not preferred in the hothoufe; 

 but whether it is herbaceous the root furviving, we have not fufficient experience to determine. 

 The increafe is certain and eafy, if cuttings are made, from the young fhoots, early in 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. 

 Loam, with a fmall portion of rotten dung, is the foil it molt approves. 



The fpecific title we have adopted, is from the very great rcfemblance the plant bears to Lycium 

 afrum, or the Box-Thorn; although we have fome doubts, whether this fpecies may not be the 

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

 leaves growing by threes; we thought that, as it as yet had no fpecific title with us, the character of 

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



