FUCHSIA EXONIENSIS. 
(The Exeter Fuchsia.) 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACE^. 
Generic Character.— Tw&e of calyx 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. Ovary crowned by an urceo- 
late gland. Style filiform, crowned by a capitate stigma. 
Berry oblong, or ovate-globose, four-valved, four-celled, 
many-seeded.^ — Bon's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character.— A hybrid between F. cordifolia 
and globosa, sharing the habit of both, and having long 
spreading flowers, the calyx of which is rich crimson, 
and the corolla deep violet purple. 
The floricultural markets are now rapidly becoming filled with all kinds of 
hybrid Fuchsias, between some of which the most discriminating judge would 
scarcely be able to perceive any tangible distinction, or one which could be expressed 
in words. And this is in great part due to the hybridist taking hybrids which are not 
themselves sufficiently distinct in habit, or in the form and colour of their flowers, 
to breed from ; the result of which practice must always be an increased confusion 
among the sorts, without obtaining anything novel enough to deserve special notice 
or culture. It cannot be too much urged on the attention of those who seek to 
obtain good seedling hybrids, that the parents must, in all cases, be very distinct 
species ; or, if themselves seedlings, they should be equally different. 
By following out this principle, the beautiful Fuchsia now figured has been 
raised by Mr. Pince, of the firm of Lucombe, Pince, & Co., of Exeter, between 
F. cordifolia and F. globosa^ the former being the female, the latter the male parent. 
It was thought, in the experiment, likely that the fine long flowers of F. cordifolia 
might be united with the superb colours of F. globosa ; and this object seems to 
have been very well accomplished ; for F. E^wniensis.^ besides a kind of intermediate 
habit and foliage, has large flowers, which have a long tube, expanded deep crimsony 
scarlet sepals, and a dark purple corolla. 
It was raised during the spring of 1842, and planted out in the open border 
with many other seedlings. It first flowered there, and has proved to be quite 
hardy at Exeter. 
