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of the sea, it is not more tender than most of the other species of the same genus. In this country it proves a 
free-growing plant, which if planted in the border of a conservatoiy, and trained round a piUar or a stake, looks 
remarkably well and flowers freely. To its other peculiarities this species adds considerable beauty of foliage, the 
under portion of the leaves being of various shades of deep pink and crimson. Mr. Gardner observes, that when it 
grows by the side of a river, it will climb up the stems of large trees, and flower among the branches at the height 
of forty or fifty feet from the ground, giving the trees to which it has attached itself the appearance of being 
Fuchsias themselves. On mountains five or six thousand feet high, however, it loses its climbing habit, and becomes 
a bush from two to four feet high. It was introduced in 1840, 
13.— FUCHSIA ALPESTEIS Gard. THE MOUNTAIN FUCHSIA. 
Engraving. — Bot. Mag., t. 3999. 
Specific Character. — Stem terete, subscandent. Branches covered 
with a dense pubescence. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceo- 
late, rounded at the base, acuminate, subrevolute at the margin and 
distantly subdentate, pubescent on both sides and on the petiole ; 
petiole rounded below, channelled above. Peduncles axillary, solitary, 
one-flowered. Segments of the calyx lanceolate, acuminate, twice as 
long as the petals, which are wedge-shaped. Berries oblong, four-angled. 
Desceiption, &c. — This very distinct species of Fuchsia was found by Mr. Gardner on the Organ Mountains 
in Brazil, growing in moist, bushy, rocky places at an elevation of upwards of five thousand feet above the level of 
the sea. In its native place of growth, the plant has a rambling half-climbing habit, the branches being from 
twelve to twenty feet in length. The plant is, however, very distinct from F. radicans, as it is covered entirely 
with a dense pubescence, and the leaves curl up at the margin, which, as they have a reddish tinge on the lower 
surface, gives them a very peculiar appearance. The berries are also decidedly quadrangular, instead of being 
smooth and oblong as is usual in the species of this genus. F. alpestris was introduced in 1842. 
HYBRIDS BELONGING TO SECTION II. 
F. STANDISHII Bort. 
This is a very handsome plant, raised from seeds of F. glohosa fecundated by the pollen of F. fulgens, and 
which is remarkable for being completely intermediate between the two species, having the leaves, flowers, and 
habit of F. glohosa, with the hairiness and colour of F. fulgens. The flowers are also considerably elongated. 
The hybrid was raised by Mr. Standish, a nm’seryman at Bagshot, in the year 1839. In 1841, Mr. Standish 
reared several other seedlings, which were all hybrids between F. eorymhiflora and different species of the long- 
stamened division, and some of these were remarkably handsome, particularly those raised between F. corrjm- 
hijiora and F. macrostema. 
F. EXONIENSIS Hort. 
This is a hybrid raised at Exeter, by Mr. Pince, between the flowers of F. cordifolia and F. glohosa. The 
flowers are remarkably large, with very long lobes to the calyx, which, however, is rather of a dark crimson than of 
scarlet. The petals are of a very fine, rich, dark purple. The hybrid called F. longiflora bears considerable 
resemblance, in the shape of the flowers, to F. exoniensis, but the colours are different ; the calyx in F. longiflora 
being scarlet, and the petals crimson. 
F. CHANDLERII Sort. 
This was the first hybrid which had the sepals nearly white, and it appears to have been raised from seeds of 
F, fulgens fertilised by the pollen of some species belonging to the second section. Several other hybrids with a 
pale calyx have since been raised, the most ornamental of which are Venus Victrix and Smith's Queen Victoria. 
