FUCHSIA SERR ATI FOLIA. 
(Saw-leaved Fuchsia,) 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
QNAGRACEiE. 
Generic Character.' — Calyx tube adhering to the 
ovarium at the base, and drawn out at the apex into 
a cylindrical four-cleft tube, whose lobes soon fall off. 
Petals four, alternating with the lobes of the calyx, 
and inserted in the upper part of the tube, very 
rarely wanting. Stamens eight. Ovarium crowned 
by an urceolate gland. Style filiform, crowned by a 
capitate stigma. Berry oblong, or ovate-globose, 
four-valved, four-celled, many-seeded. 
Specific Character. — Plant a tall shrub. Leaves 
three or four in a whorl, rarely opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, serrated, petiolate. Peduncles 
solitary, axillary, single-flowered. Flowers nodding 
or drooping. Calyx with a long tube, and spreading 
lanceolate acuminate segments. Petals obovate, 
waved, shorter than the segments of the calyx. 
Stamens unequal. Style rather longer than the 
stamens. Stigma thick, club-shaped. Ovary oblong, 
glabrous. 
It has been long known to botanists that several species of this elegant family 
still exist in various parts of South America, but chiefly in Peru, which have never 
yet been imported to this country except as dried specimens. Some of them, if we 
may judge from description and the figures given in the " Flora Peruviana et 
Chilensis " of Ruiz and Pa von, are quite as desirable, in a floricultural light, as 
any of those we possess. Amongst those which collectors ought to look for, we 
may mention F. apetala, so named from the absence of a corolla, and F. simplici- 
caulis, both of which are natives of the same locality as F. serratifolia. There is 
also another, perhaps still more beautiful, the F, denticulata, found amongst rocks 
at Huassa-huassa and Cheuchin, in Peru, where the inhabitants entitle it the 
"Mollo-Cantu" or " beautiful plant." 
The present species is one which lias only lately been wrested from its native 
woods. A specimen brought during the past season to the exhibitions of the 
London Horticultural and Royal Botanical Societies, by Messrs. Yeitch and Son, 
of Exeter, was the first which has ever disclosed flowers in a European collection : 
and such is the beautiful and distinct character of the species, that notwithstanding 
the vast profusion of charming varieties of Fuchsia already in circulation, it has 
perhaps elicited more admiration than any other novelty of the season. 
It was originally described by Ruiz and Pavon, who discovered it in somewhat 
humid and umbrageous situations at Man a in Peru, where it forms a shrub six or 
eight feet high, and flowers from June to September, Mr, William Lobb found 
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