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by the bright cinnamon-red of its young 1. and shoots. L. co- 
riaceous evergreen 6-8 in. long, 1-1| wide. FI. large in thick 
trichotomous tassel-like bunches at the ends of the branches, 
greenish-white at first, then cream-col. scentless. Fr. very beau- 
tiful, pale buff or apricot-y. mostly tinged with rose or purple 
on one side, with a strong scent and taste of rose-water, about 
the size of a walnut globose more or less turbinate, the flesh 
not above 2 or 3 lines thick and of a somewhat spongy dry or 
grumose substance, sweet but vapid and soon palling on the 
palate, resembling a sweet dry spongy apple steeped in rose- 
water. The large hollow space inside is not quite filled by a 
large round single, or by 2 or 3 partly round partly angular brown 
seeds with very large thick gr. cot. closely welded together. 
The fr. is scarcely ever admitted to the table, but is left to be 
eaten by children or devoured by swine. 
J. Malaccensis (L.) BM. 4408 with its fine large stiff coriaceous 
Magnolia-like 1. nearly a foot long and 4 in. broad, resembling 
strongly those of Pleiomeris or Myrsine canariensis (Willd.) 
and crimson fl. and fr. (the latter pear-shaped or rather cla- 
vate) produced on the old wood or branches below the 1., also 
occurs in a few gardens about Funchal. 
Order XXXI. OXAGRACE^. 
Fl. perfect mostly regular. Cal. tubular wholly or partly 
adnate to the ovary, 2-5-lobed, lobes mostly 4 valvate in the 
bud. Pet. as many as cal.-lobes, rarely 0, inserted at top of 
cal.-tube, alternate with its lobes, twisted in bud. Stam. twice 
or half as many as pet. and inserted with them. Ov. 4- or 2- 
celled with a central placenta. Style 1 filiform, stigma capitate 
or lobed. Fr. a berry or capsule with mostly 4 cells. Seeds 
without albumen small and mostly numerous. — L. simple oppo- 
site or alternate sometimes whorled, without dots. 
ttTribe I. FUCIISIEJE. 
The Fuchsia Tribe. 
Fruit a berry. — S. American shr. or tr. L. opposite or 
whorled. Fl. crimson or rarely white, scentless. 
tfl. Fuchsia. Cal. combined with the ovary below, free 
above and produced into a 4-lobed coloured tube, constricted 
and falling off together with the cor. at its junction with 
the ovary. Pet. 4 convolutely imbricate forming a short 
cup, rarely 0. Stam. 8. Ov. crowned with an urceolate 
disli. Style filiform, stigma capitate. Berry 4-celled 
