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FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA. 
(cORYMB-FLOWERKD FUCHSIA.) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
0CTANDRTA. MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
ONAGRACEjE. 
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 urceolate gland. Styles filiform, crowned by a capitate stigma. Berry oblong or 
ovate-globose, four-valved, four-celled, many-seeded. — Doll's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character. — Plant shrubby, deciduous. Leaves opposite or in threes, large, oblong, entire, 
covered with down, green above, paler beneath, with a rugose surface. Corymbs terminal, pendulous, 
many-flowered. Calyx with an exceedingly long tube, funnel-shaped, crimson; lobes reflexed. 
Petals free, slightly spreading, acute, scarlet, nearly an inch long. 
A more desirable acquisition to British collections has certainly not been made 
for some years than the superb Fuchsia of which a figure is now presented. The 
F.fulgens , which was so greatly and deservedly admired on its first introduction, 
has some peculiarities which detracted much from its real merits, and prevented it 
from becoming the universal favourite it would otherwise have been. For example, 
its mode of growth is too luxuriant to admit of its flowering so abundantly as could 
be wished ; while the production of its flowers in determinate racemes from the 
extremities of the principal branches alone, also conduced to the same end. The 
paleness and the shade of green in the tube of its calyx, with its inappropriateness 
for growing in the open border, have, moreover, tended to check its diffusion. 
Thes characters are not noticed to depreciate a plant that is really ornamental, 
and which will ever, we should think, form a prominent feature in the greenhouse, 
as well as afford means for an intermixture of its better properties with those of 
other species to an indefinite extent ; but simply to show how superior F. corymhi- 
Jiora promises to be in all respects. Our very correct representation will give a good 
idea of the superlative beauty of the plant ; and what is wanting here, shall be 
made up from the account which Mr. Standish has obligingly transmitted, and the 
annexed woodcut. 
Seeds of this species were received by Mr. John Standish, nurseryman, of 
