DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
157 
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
Onagrarie^e. — Octandria Monogynia. 
Fuchsia spectabilis (Hooker). From the collection of Messrs. 
Veitch and Sons, Exeter, who gratified the members of the 
Horticultural Society by the exhibition of it at their rooms in 
Regent Street, April 18tli, 1848, when the large silver medal of 
the Society was awarded to it. It was then stated to be the 
Fuchsia loxensis of Humboldt, and one of the handsomest Fuchsias 
yet in cultivation; its dark green leaves and large brilliant 
scarlet flowers, with which the white-lobed stigma nicely con¬ 
trasts, rendering it extremely attractive; to this character of its 
beauty may be added the blood-red colour of the flowering 
branches, and rich purple of the under sides of the leaves, con¬ 
trasted with the almost velvety rich green of their surface. I have 
only to dissent from its being considered the F. loxensis of 
Humboldt, whose figure (Gen. et Sp. PI. vol. iv, p. 536) is cer¬ 
tainly at variance with our plant, as is the F. loxensis, Benth., in 
‘Plantse Hartwegianse,’ n. 733. The form and size of the 
-leaves, and the size of the flowers, and, above all, of the stigma, 
are strikingly different in the two, and the present is assuredly 
a most distinct and undescribed species. It is not indeed entirely 
unknown to me, for I possess specimens of it in a collection 
sent by Mr. Seemann, of H.M.S. Herald, gathered in September, 
1847, at “Pambo de Yeerba buena El Equador.” Mr. Veitch’s 
plant from Mr. Lobb is probably from the same country, though 
the “Mountains of Peru” are given as the station. Mr. Lobb 
himself spoke of it in his letter to Mr. Veitch as the “loveliest 
of the lovely, found in shady woods, and growing from two to 
four feet high.” The flowers are produced singly from the axils 
of the upper leaves; the calyx tube is about four inches long, 
bright red, swollen at the base; the limb is of four spreading, 
ovate, acuminate segments, tipped with green ; the petals are 
large, deep purplish-red, nearly orbicular, waved, very patent, 
and pressed as it were upon the segments of the calyx, than 
which they are shorter. The style is terminated by a remarkably 
large four-lobed stigma, rendered white or yellowish by the 
copious pollen.— Bot. Mag . 4375. 
