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FUCHSIA GLOBOSA, Var. ELEGANS. 
(elegant globe-flowered fuchsia). 
class. order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ONAGRACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx four-parted, coloured, funuel-shaped, deciduous. Petals four. Berry four- 
celled. Seeds many. 
Specific Character. — A dwarf shrul), from a foot to eighteen inches high. Leaves usually opposite, 
sometimes in threes, bright green, toothed, ovate and pointed. Flowers axillary, pendulous. 
Calyx rich crimson. Petals purple lilac, about half the length of the calyx. 
Var. Elegans.— The superior size and brilliant colour of the flowers, together with the stronger growth 
and very graceful habit of the plant, sufficiently mark it as a distinct variety. 
The species of which our present subject is a variety has, since it was made 
known by Mr. Bunny, who raised it from seeds of the F. conical been a great 
favourite in our gardens ; and certainly its pretty growth, the brilliant scarlet colour, 
and globose figure of the flower, stamp it with much interest and beauty, which 
render it highly worthy of the place it enjoys. 
Beautiful as are many of the varieties that have sprung from this and other 
species of the genus Fuchsia, there is not one, with <vhich we profess an ac(][uaint- 
ance, more handsome than that now figured : the flowers are large, of the most 
brilliant colours, and the general habit of the plant is bold and elegant. 
It was raised by Mr. Silverlock, in his nursery at Chichester, where from a fine 
flowering plant the accompanying- faithful representation was delineated by Miss 
Foly, and by Mr. S. kindly communicated to us. Although Mr. S. is certain of 
its being- raised from seeds produced by F. glohosa, yet he cannot positively say 
by what species the flowers became fertilised, as so many crosses were made about 
the same time, but of its being- a fixed variety there is n6 doubt. 
It may be cultivated without difiiculty in any rich soil, and young- plants are 
readily obtained from cuttings of the young branches. 
