Clast. 
FUCHSIA SERRATIFOLTA. 
(Saw-leaved Fuchsia.) 
Order. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Generic Character.'— tube adhering to the 
varium at the base, and drawn out at the apex into 
cylindrical four-cleft tube, whose lobes soon fall off. 
^etals four, alternating with the lobes of the calyx, 
nd inserted in the upper part of the tube, very 
arely wanting. Stamens eight. Ovarium crowned 
ly an urceolate gland. Style filiform, crowned by a 
apitate stigma. Berry oblong, or ovate-globose, 
jur-valved, four-celled, many-seeded. 
Specific Character. — Plant a tall shrub. Leaves 
MONOGYNIA. 
three or four in a whorl, rarely opposite, oblong- 
lanceolate, acute, serrated, petiolate. Peduncles 
solitary, axillary, single-flowered. Flowers nodding 
or drooping. Calyx with a long tube, and spreading 
lanceolate acuminate segments. Petals obovate, 
waved, shorter than the segments of the calyx. 
Stamens unequal. Style rather longer than the 
stamens. Stigma thick, club-shaiied. Ovary oblong, 
glabrous. 
Natural Order. 
ONAGRACEiE. 
It has been long known to botanists that several species of this elegant family- 
till exist in various parts of South America, but chiefly in Peru, which have never 
j^et been imported to this country except as dried specimens. Some of them, if we 
nay judge from description and the figures given in the “ Flora Peruviana et 
^hilensis” of Ruiz and Pavon, are quite as desirable, in a floricultural light, as 
,ny of those we possess. Amongst those which collectors ought to look for, we 
nay mention F. apetala^ so named from the absence of a corolla, and F. simplici- 
aulis, both of which are natives of the same locality as F. serrati/dlia. There is 
Iso another, perhaps still more beautiful, the F. denticuldta, found amongst rocks 
t Huassa-huassa and Cheuchin, in Peru, where the inhabitants entitle it the 
‘ Mollo-Cantu” or “ beautiful plant.” 
The present species is one which lias only lately been wrested from its native 
voods. A specimen brought during the past season to the exhibitions of the 
jondon Horticultural and Royal Botanical Societies, by Messrs. Yeitch and Son, 
f Exeter, was the first which has ever disclosed flowers in a European collection : 
nd such is the beautiful and distinct character of the species, that notwithstanding 
lie vast profusion of charming varieties of Fuchsia already in circulation, it has 
erhaps elicited more admiration than any other novelty of the season. 
It was originally described by Ruiz and Pavon, who discovered it in somewhat 
umid and umbrageous situations at Muna in Peru, where it forms a shrub six or 
ight feet high, and flowers from June to September. Mr. William Lobb found 
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