FUCHSIA RADICANS. 
(Stem-rooting Fuchsia.) 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACEiE. 
Generic Character.— Tube of calyx adhering to the 
ovary 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. — Plant an evergreen shrub. 
Leaves usually opposite, oval, roundish at the base, 
acuminate, glabrous, slightly toothed. Flowers pen- 
dulous, on slender red peduncles. Calyx deep crimson , 
segments much expanded, lanceolate, acute. Petals con- 
volutely embracing the stamens, wedge-shaped, purple. 
Stamens long, filiform, red. Style filiform, longer than 
the stamens. Stigma red, club-shaped, with a four- 
lobed apex. Berry ovate, deep reddish-purple. 
Of the numberless beautiful species or hybrid varieties of Fuchsia which now 
adorn our gardens, there are none whose habit at all approaches that of the species 
here figured ; and since it unites a high degree of elegance with its peculiarities of 
growth, it is, what the majority of novelties have little pretensions to be, a valuable 
addition to British collections. 
Plants of it have been in this country for the last two years or more, and it 
bloomed last autumn in several places, among which we must notice the nursery 
of Messrs. Young, of Epsom, because it is there alone that we have seen its flowers 
expanded, and from thence we were permitted to take our drawing. 
We are told in the Botanical Register that it was found by Mr. Miers, in the 
Organ Mountains of Brazil, in 1829 ; but it does not appear that it was then 
brought to England. In its native districts, it is a long trailing shrub, with stems 
which branch greatly, and often attain the length of- twenty feet, with a diameter 
of half an inch. As it clings to trees for support, it generally, after the second 
year, throws out a number of stoloniferous shoots from the axils of the branches, 
and those shoots produce an abundance of roots, by which they attach themselves 
to the trees, as in the case of our ivy. 
To this very remarkable habitude, it adds a considerable beauty of foliage, the 
under portion of the leaves being of various shades of deep pink or crimson. The 
flowers, too, although not far different from those of commoner species, are very 
richly tinted, have prettily reflexed sepals, and last for a considerable time. 
