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FUCHSIA FULGENS. 
(bkilliant fuchsia.) 
CLASS. OltOKll, 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYIslA, 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ONAGRACEiE. 
Generic Character. — See vol. iv. p. 75. 
Specific Character. — Plant a robust shrub. Brmiches smooth. Leaves opposite, cordately ovate, 
acute, denticulate, smooth- Peduncles axillary, shorter than the flowers. Flowers in terminal 
racemes. Calyx five-lobed ; lobes ovato-lanceolate, acute. Petals somewhat acute, exceeding 
the calyx. Ovary greeuj covered with small excrescences. 
The highly ornamental and favourite genus of which this splendid plant forms 
a part, contains no species which can at all vie with the present in beauty or 
magnificence. The very extraordinary size and luxuriance of its stems and foliage, 
combined with the great length and striking brilliancy of the colour of its flowers, 
together w^ith the fact of their being produced so abundantly, and also in terminal 
racemes, have rendered it exceedingly popular during the present year among all 
the devotees of floriculture, and, in a very short time, it will most probably be in 
the hands of every plant cultivator. 
There are those — and we have met with several of them — who, from some 
inexplicable cause, endeavour to depreciate its value and merits, and assert it to 
be inferior in beauty to some of the species and varieties previously known. It is 
true that the flowers do not possess that exquisite glossiness of hue which is so 
very interesting in some other species, nor is the corolla of that rich purple which 
contrasts so strikingly Avith the sepals of the calyx ; but even the colour of the 
flowers is unquestionably more brilliant, and the character of the plant is infinitely 
superior to that of any other species with which we are are acquainted. Some 
have likewise aflirmed that it is not a species of Fuchsia at all, but assuredly the 
