Eugenia .] 
XXIX. ONAGRARIE/E. 
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in terminal, branched, many-flowered corymbs 2-3 in. diam., white; pedun- 
cles and pedicels very slender, the latter often in threes. Calyx-tube broadly 
obcouic ; lobes very short, broad, deciduous. Petals orbicular, often falling 
before expanding. Stamens and style very slender, f in. long. Ovary wholly 
adnate with the base of the calyx-tube, 2'-celled, with many ovules on the sep- 
tum of each cell. Berry ■§ in. long, urceolate or broadly pyriform, crowned 
with the narrower cup-shaped calyx-limb, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seed large ; 
testa coriaceous ; cotyledons large, amygdaloid. 
Northern parts of the Northern Island : in swampy ground, Cunningham, etc. 
Order XXIX. ONAGRARIEiE. 
Herbs shrubs or rarely trees. Leaves opposite or alternate, simple, ex- 
stipidate. Flowers usually regular, hermaphrodite. — Calyx-tube often elon- 
gate, adherent to the ovary, and sometimes produced beyond it ; limb 4- (rarely 
2-5-) lobed, valvate. Petals as many as lobes of calyx, or 0, inserted on the 
calyx, spreading or convolute. Stamens as many or twice as many as the 
petals, inserted with them, free. Ovary inferior, 2-4-celled ; style straight, 
stigma capitate or clavate ; ovules usually very numerous in the angles of the 
cells. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds small, exalbuminous, sometimes pro- 
vided with a tuft of hairs ; embryo straight. 
A large Order in all temperate and many tropical parts of the world, to which the CEno- 
thera, Clarlcia, and various other garden plants now cultivated in New Zealand belong. 
Ovary oblong, terete. Fruit a berry 1. Fuchsia. 
Ovary linear, 4-angled. Fruit a capsule 2. Epilobium. 
1. FUCHSIA, Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate or opposite or whorled. Flowers 
pendulous, long-pedicelled.— Calyx-tube ovoid, produced into a tubular or 
catnpanulate, deciduous, 4-lobed limb, the lobes large, spreading, acuminate. 
Petals 0 or 4, concave or convolute. Stamens 8, much longer than the petals. 
Ovary crowned with an urceolate disk, 4-celled; style slender, stigma capitate 
or clavate ; ovules very numerous. Berry ovoid, fleshy, 4-celled, many-seeded. 
A very large South American, and especially Andean genus of most beautiful plants, found 
nowhere in the Old World but in New Zealand. 
Stem erect, subarboreous. Leaves 2-3 in. Petals small . . . . 1. F. excorticata. 
Stem prostrate. Leaves slender. Petals 0, or small 2. F. procumbens. 
1. F. excorticata, Linn.f. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 56. A large bush or small 
tree, 10-30 ft. high, with the trunk sometimes 3 ft. diam., covered with 
ragged, papery bark ; branches brittle. Leaves alternate, twice as long as their 
slender petioles, very variable in length, 1^-3^- in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, obscurely toothed, membranous, green above, silvery below. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, on long, slender, drooping peduncles, shorter than 
the petioles, f— 1 in. long. Calyx dingy-purple, globular above the ovary, 
then contracted and lengthened into a funnel-shaped 4-cleft tube ; lobes 
lanceolate, very acuminate. Petals much smaller than the calyx-lobes, lan- 
ceolate, red-purple. Stamens exserted ; anthers oblong. Ovary linear-oblong ; 
