ONAQBABIACEM. 



.469 



Fuchsia eoecinea. 



of Epilohium are described, from all cold and temperate regions of 

 the globe ; tbey are herbaceous or subshrubby, with alternate or 

 opposite leaves, entire or dentate, and axillary (pink, white, or 

 yellow) flowers, solitary or collected at the ends of branches in spikes 

 or in clusters with short pedicels. 



Hauya ' elegans is a shrub from the warm parts of Mexico, the 

 flower of which is closely analogous to that of the CEnotheras with 

 long receptacular tube, a little dilated above. There its margin 

 bears four coriaceous and valvate sepals, four petals and eight ex- 

 serted stamens with long introrse anthers. The gynaeoium is that 

 of an Onagra, and the style terminates in 

 a large stigmatiferous ball. In each of the 

 ovarian cells (often incomplete) are nume- 

 rous ascending ovules, which become as 

 many imbricated seeds, with superior 

 wing, in the capsular woody loculicidal 

 fruit. The leaves are alternate, - rarely 

 subopposite, petiolate, tomentose, and the 

 large flowers ^ are axillary, sessile, and 

 solitary.^ 



Fuchsia'^ (fig. 438, 439) may be consi- 

 dered Hauya with fleshy fruit. The berry 

 encloses a small or large number of reni- 

 form or angular seeds. The receptacular 

 tube surmounting the ovary is very vari- 

 able in form, cylindrical, or dilated from bottom upwards, of enlarged 

 to a bowl. The flowers, tetramerous, have coloured sepals, more or 



Fig. 438. Flower. 



1 Moc. et Sees. Fl. Mex. Icon. ined. ex DO. 

 M4m. Onagrar. 2, t. 1 ; Prodr. iii. 36. — B. H. 

 Gen. 791, n. 11. 



2 Pinkisli white. 



^ Montinia aeris L. p. {Suppl. 427) a Oape 

 shrub with alternate leaves was considered by 

 De Candolle {Mim. lam. Onagrar. 2 ; Frodr. 

 iii. 35) as a type of a tribe of Montinww, re- 

 tained by Endlioher {Gen. 1192), and admitted 

 by Bentham and Hooker ((?». 794, u. 22) as 

 an abnormal genus in the Onagrariece. It has 

 nearly the capsular fruit of Bauya, but bivalve, 

 dioecious 4-5-merous flowers, and stamens equal 

 in number and alternating with the petals, erro- 

 neously said to be wanting in the female flowers 

 where they exist though sterile (H. Bn. Adati- 



sonia, xii. 38). The inferior ovary is wanting 

 in the male flower, the shallow receptacle of 

 which is covered with a fleshy disk around 

 which are inserted the perianth and androecium. 

 It has also been referred (Harv. and Sond. M. 

 Cap. n. 307) to the Saxifragaceee. (See Bxtem. 

 Afr. t. 90, f. 1, 2.— GiERTN. Fruot. i. 170, i. 33. 

 — Lamk. m. t. 808.— Sm. Spicil. t. 15.) 



" Plum. Gen. U.—h.Gen. n. 128.— J. Gen. 320. 

 — liAMK. Diet. ii. 564; Suppl. ii. 678; Hit. 282. 

 —DO. Prodr. iii. 36.— Spaoh, Suit. A JBufon, iv. 

 404.— Endl. Gen. n. 6125.- B. H. Gen. 790, 

 1007, n. 10.— H. Bn. Pai/er Fam. Nat. 374 (incl.: 

 BncUandra Zuoo. Skinnera Forst.). 



6 FoEST. Char. Gen. 57, t. 29.— Spach, Ann. 

 So. Nat. ser. 2, iii. 178. 



