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Section 3. Flowers very long ; tube of the calyx many times longer than the lobes ; stamens generally but little exserted. 
14.— FUCHSIA FULGENS Moc. et Sesse. THE GLOWING FUCHSIA. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 3801 ; Bot. Reg., for 1838, t. 1 ;Paxt. 
Mag. of Bot., vol. V., p. 221 ; and The Botanist, t. 63. 
Specific Character. — Branches glabrous. Leaves opposite, cordate- 
ovate, acute, denticulate. Peduncles axillary, shorter than the flowers ; 
upper ones racemose. Lobes of the calyx ovate-lanceolate, acute. 
Petals a little shorter than the sepals. 
Description, &c. — This magnificent plant, -which is no-w so well kno-wn, -was introduced in 1837, and was the 
first of the long-flowered Fuchsias brought to this country. It is a native of Mexico, where it was orighially met 
with by Mocino and Sesse, two Spanish botanists, who inserted a description of it in a work they afterwards 
prepared, entitled “ Flora Mexicana,” which, however, never was published ; and as they did not introduce the plant, 
its existence was only known to botanists till it was brought to England in 1837. When it was first seen at one 
of the Meetings of the Horticultural Society in Regent Street, the sensation it created was beyond all description ; 
and as it was found to be of remarkably easy culture and to grow freely in the open ground, only requiring pro- 
tection against severe frosts, it has become common with extraordinary rapidity, and there is now scarcely a garden 
in the kingdom that does not possess a plant of Fuchsia ful gens, at least during the summer months. ^ 
15.— FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA Ruiz et Pav. THE CLUSTER-FLOWERED FUCHSIA. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag., t. 4000 ; Bot. Reg., for 1840, t. 70; and 
Paxt. Mag. of Bot., vol. viii., p. 7. 
Specific Character. — Leaves opposite, in threes, petiolate, toinen- 
tose, somewhat rough from being reticulately veined. Corymbs 
terminal, pendulous, many-flowered. Tube of the calyx very long, 
funnel-shaped ; segments of the limb reflexed. Petals free, spreading, 
acute, longer than the stamens. 
Description, &c. — The history of the introduction of this splendid plant is rather curious. Mr. Standish, a 
nurseryman at Bagshot, received the seeds from some relations he happened to have at Montreal, in Canada, and 
they informed him that the seeds had been given to them by a friend of theirs who had just arrived from Cusco, 
in Peru, where he had been for the puqiose of trading in saddles. The plant flowered for the first time in 
England in 1840, when it was found to be F. corymbijlora, a species of Fuchsia figured and described in the “ Flora 
Peruviana ” of Ruiz and Pavon. In the “ Flora Peruviana ” this species is said to grow about six or seven feet high, 
and to be found in shady woods lying to the north-east of Lima. The flowers are certainly very handsome, 
but the plant itself can scarcely be called ornamental, from its habit of growth. When the flowers first appear 
they look veiy well, but they soon drop off, and as fresh ones appear the flower stem elongates, so that at last 
above the corymb of flowers, a long portion of naked stem appears which is scarred with the remains of the fallen 
peduncles, and is very unsightly. The plant, contrary to the expectations which were at first entertained of it, is 
neither so hardy nor so easily propagated as F.fulgens. 
16.— FUCHSIA CORDIFOLIA Benth. THE HEART-LEAVED FUCHSIA. 
Engravings. — Bot. Reg., for 1841, t. 70 ; and Paxt. Mag. of Bot., 
vol. ix., p. 99. 
Specific Character. — Stem glabrous. Leaves opposite, alternately 
verticillatc, longer than the petioles, hroad, cordate, acuminate, denticu- 
late, minutely tuhercled, but almost smooth beneath. Pedicels axillary, 
one-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Calyx pubescent ; tube much 
longer than the segments. Petals ovate, very short, acuminate. 
Description, &c. — This species has two peculiarites which distinguish its flowers at first sight from those of 
the preceding long-tubed species, and these are, that the segments of the calyx and the petals are of a fine green, 
while the tube of the calyx is of a brUliaut scarlet, and also the flower is hairy. The foliage is very fine, and 
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