FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA. 
(Heart-shaped leaved Fuchsi .) 
Class. Older. 
OCTANDRIA. MONCGYJNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGllACE^. 
Generic Character.— See p. 27 of the present Volume. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergreen shrub, 
growing four or more feet high. Leaves opposite, or in 
whorls of three, with long petioles, broadly heart- 
shaped, acuminate, toothed, very slightly downy above, 
almost smooth beneath. Pedicels axillary, one flowered, 
shorter than the leaves. Calyx pubescent, with a very 
long tube. Petals ovate, particularly short, acuminate. 
Among the many fine plants discovered and sent home by Mr. Hartweg, the 
collector employed by the Horticultural Society, this new Fuchsia will rank with 
the most hardy and easily cultivated, and therefore the most valuable. When first 
flowered, owing to its having been kept in too warm a house, and otherwise treated 
with too much care, its blossoms were comparatively small, and of a pale-orange 
colour ; in consequence of which, it was thought undeserving of much notice. 
Subsequent culture has, however, from being more appropriate, caused it to expand 
blossoms as large as those represented in our plate, and even larger ; the tints, too, 
being quite as rich, and sometimes deeper. 
It was met with, by Mr. Hartweg, on Ketuch, a volcano in Guatemala, at the 
height of 10,000 feet above the sea. It will, therefore, be almost capable of enduring 
the open air in the southern parts of Britain, and has been found to flourish well in 
the borders during summer. We are not aware that its hardihood has yet been 
further tested. 
It is a shrubby plant, producing numerous spreading stems, and graceful heart- 
shaped foliage, which it retains through the winter in a greenhouse. The flowers 
are solitary, but being generally borne in the axil of each leaf, are by no means 
scanty or distant. They depend elegantly on long curved peduncles, and are often 
three inches in length. The bottom of the calyx tube (which, however, is literally 
uppermost^ in consequence of the pendent position of the flowers) is of a very rich 
hue, between crimson and scarlet, and this passes gradually to light orange or yellow 
towards the summit, where the segments, which are expansive, but not turned 
backwards at the points, become green. The petals of the corolla are also green ; 
