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slender petioles, the branches terminated with loose racemes of small 

 rose-pink or sometimes white flowers (only J' in diameter), on slender 

 pedicels from the axil of leafy bracts, produced all summer, followed by 

 very small round pods. 



10. FUCHSIA. (Named for L. Fuchs, an early German botanist.) 

 Well-known, ornamental, tender, shrubby plants, or even trees, chiefly 

 natives of the Andes from Mexico to Fuegia, mostly smooth, with oppo- 

 site or ternately whorled leaves. The best known species are the fol- 



ln S- _ * Erect-flowered species. 



+- Flowers solitary ; plant dioecious. 



F. procumbens, R. Cunn., from N. Zealand, is a trailing species with 

 small ovate leaves which are very light colored beneath, and small, apet- 

 alous, axillary flowers, with an orange calyx tube, and spreading or at 

 length reflexed, dark-purple, obtuse lobes. 



■»- +- Flowers in a naked and compound terminal panicle-like cluster, 



perfect. 



F. arborescens, Sims. Tree F., from Mexico; a stout shrub, with 

 oblong or lance-oblong entire leaves, acute at both ends and usually 

 whorled ; flowers light rose-color, J' long, with narrow, oblong, widely 

 spreading calyx lobes, and spreading petals rather longer than the tube, 

 about as long as the stamens and style. 



# * Drooping-flowered species. 



■i- Short-flowered Fuchsias or Ladies 1 Eardrops, with the lobes of the nor- 

 mally red calyx longer than the tube and than the petals; the latter 

 normally violet or blue, obovate and refuse, convolute around the base 

 of the projecting filaments and still longer style ; flowers hanging on 

 long peduncles from the axils of the leaves. Common conservatory 

 and house plants. 



F. macrostSmma, Ruiz & Pav. The common species, in many forms ; 

 has dentate leaves on slender petioles ; calyx tube oblong or short-cylin- 

 drical, more or less shorter than the spreading lobes. The species now 

 greatly varied in color ; some varieties with calyx white or light and the 

 petals deeply colored, some with the reverse ; also double-flowered, the 

 petals being multiplied. Chile. F. coccfNEA, F. MagellAnica, F. c6n- 

 ica, F. gracilis, and F. glob6sa are now commonly referred to this 

 species, although the last, with globular or ovoid calyx tube and nearly 

 globular small flowers, is perhaps specifically distinct. 



•i- -t- Long-flowered Fuchsias, with trumpet-shaped or slightly funnel- 

 shaped tube of the calyx 2'-3' long, very much longer than the spread- 

 ing lobes, which little exceed the acute or pointed, somewhat spreading 

 petals ; stamens and style little projecting ; flowers crowded into a rather 

 close, drooping raceme or corymb at the end of the branches ; leaves 

 large, 6'-7' long. The following species are seen only in choice 

 collections. 



F. fulgens, Mo§. & Sesse, from Mexico ; smooth, with ovate, somewhat 

 heart-shaped leaves, and scarlet flowers, the lance-ovate calyx lobes often 

 tinged with green. 



F. corymbifldra, Ruiz & Pav., from Peru ; mostly pubescent, with lance- 

 oblong and taper-pointed, almost entire leaves, and red flowers, the lance- 

 olate calyx lobes and the lance-oblong' petals taper-pointed, at length 

 widely spreading. 



