FUCHS 
Filaments eight, longer than the tube of the calyx, and in- 
ferted into its bafe, thread-fhaped, four of them ufually 
; anthe ers vertical, two-lobed. 
MCns $ 1a ee 
ry oval, fucculent, with fo 
fs numerous, finail eae 
Fanged vertically in two rows upon the calomel | in each 
i 
four-cleft, bearing 
alyx fuperior, coloured, 
cells. Seeds 
"En. (Che Ca 
the corolla Petals four. Berry of four 
numerou 
Obf. i ened: relying on Plumier’s figure, has miftaken 
the calyx for a.corolla, which he therefore defcribes as 
having eight marginal fegments, and, owing to a further in- 
sania he n the delineations of his original author, or at 
leaft in the engraved copies of them, -he was induced to refer 
the genus erroneoufly to his. fourth clats “inftead of the 
eighth nce the real Fuchfia being widcly mifunderftood, 
ave as "eltab eae - various 
s the ab 
mplete enumeration See ean 
of the f{peci dan hae hitherto been given. ey are 
among the ae clegant of all plants, ee as far as we 
now, not enriched with: any — e, nor with any 
valuable medicinal or economical ges 
oe trip aan as lL. a triphylla, flore 
coccineo ; Je. - lufter oS 
naked. fe eaves oe he heal, pers ” Nat of 
ie Bley Indies, but it feems to be very rare. cee 
not mention ea he found this f{pecies, nor has any 
we can difcover, met with it, except 
no ville, a Hage from whom, gathered 
in Hif aniola, was ae y Thouin tothe younger Lin- 
nus, along with about es of the fineft and rareft plants,. 
gathered by various As ch voyager e fiem of this, 
the original {pecies of Fuch/fa, 2 eal to be fimple, herba- 
ceous and ere€ aves are thr ether ina whorl, 
feffile, As ee ‘about 1 two inches in ete roughith, nearly 
eine, turned of a greyifh brown by drying. qwers I a 
fimple, terminal, upright clufter, their calyx about an inch 
and half‘lon ae arlet as well as the petals, w 
n black c 
ee ee pea Ruiz ane ‘Pavon Fl Peruv. v. 3. 89. 
t. 322. f. a —Umbel terminal, of four flowers.. Involu- 
crum fomewhat dow vy, four leaved. Leaves lanceolate, 
toothed, {mooth. AS imple, drooping. Native o 
woods of Munna in Peru, flowering in Augutt and: 
Stem rather hbo. four feet high, fi mple, except 
or tio, - fy, drooping at the fa ae 
n a whorl, nearly fefiile, “finear-lanceola ate, 
flightly toothed, drooping, very pee Stipulas intrafo- 
F: Wer. our together, 
, forming a terminal umbel, with an jnvoluer um ‘s 
ser pointed, t ys leav 
umbel is .fometimes 
downy, rather larger than in the former, and with longer 
drger 
popes 
7 
ere Petals - rlet. 
. Fe apeta Ruiz aa Pavon Fl. Peru v. 3. 89. 
t. pe 6 Tower ae corymbofe, train bas axil- 
ovat ire. etal I nting.— 
flowerin 
parafitical on the trunk t 
eaves alternate or fcattered, ftalked, 
what wavy, fof, and tender, fcarcely an acl and half fone 
which color 
remains in boss ‘ar ~ a earn oe almott globular; rather 
larger tha 
Tis 
Flocuer large, drooping, remarkable for having no petals, 
Calyx red, three inches inlength. Berry red. 
4 “E, rofea. Ruiz and Pavon FI. 
“ Plower-ftalks axillary, fingle-flowered. 
pos unequa 
Peruv. v. 
Leaves 
t 
mber. Stem fhru > 100 
ereét, round, branched. Branches brittle. Leaves eight from 
one centre, unequal, ftalked, aaigte entire, {mooth 53° 
the upper ones alternate. vas 
coloured ees and calyx. 
Fler ruviana, fo we can yey cone a deicription as 
above. 
. E ferratifolia. Ruiz and Pavon Fi. Peruv. v. 3. 86. 
. 323. t.4.—Flower-ftalks axillary. Leaves three or four 
aw a. ovate, fralked, ferrated, {mocth above, 
the flower round if moitft ff 
ornamental appearance. 
: s high, not much branched. 
iree or four in a whorl, three to nee inches 
— broad, {preading, flighth 
rous red veins, and red ita 
each axilla, rather fmaller than thole of £. apetala, with a- 
rofy-red, rather downy calyx, and fcarlet petals. The tips 
calyx however are green. a purplith, elon- 
6. F. denticulata. Ruiz and Pavon Fi. Peruv. v. 3. OF, 
ta 928...4, a psi aa axillary, reaching beyond the 
ee, 
- 
° 
nem 
a 
o. 
branches s three in a whor. Peta cee 
ceolate, ‘tooled, fhorter than the flowers — , 
funny ve and banks at Hu affahualli ~ Chenchin 
in Peru, blooming beautifully from March to Oétober 
This is a aia about the fize of the laft,. from ‘which it dif. 
fers in the toothed, not ferrated, /eaves, an he extenfion 
of the fowers beyond the ends of the branches, their ftalks 
proceeding ee 7 poses of: pie io the upper leaves 
only. rple. ounded, fe ia 
Stomon and “Iyle porps, nt fearlet ike re former.- Berry’ 
rple. 
. F. ovalis. Ruiz and Pavon Tl. Peruv. v. 3. 87. 
. f. a.—Flower-ftalks in leafy whorls, on nee axil. 
ne bra nches. Leaves oppofite or three together, -ftalked, 
elliptical, wavy, downy on both fides. Calyx hair Na- 
tive of the woods of Munna in Pera; flowering ae Juné 
to Auguit. A forud about fix feet high, upright ar a: 
branched. The aves are three inches long, broadly ellip- 
ical, acute, on downy ‘fal Flowering branches thorter 
D 
he leaves, round, fimple, downy, each bearing two 
three whorls.of fmall down leaves, with a correfponding 
number of axillary: fimple flower- ftalks, ‘The calyx is- not. 
above an inch me in the tube, feariet, sed externally, 
like the germen‘and ftalk. Petals {carlet, acut 
Ruiz and Pavon 
a) 
ss 
Nati ive 
ar flalk w ; oni ce vny leaf or bien. 
“ “y fare) hairy. 
. F. coccinea. Dryandr. in Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 2. 8. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. 340. Curt. Mag t. 97. (F. macroftema s. 
Ruiz 
