_ petiolata, glabra, ovato-lanceolata, basi leviter cordata, 
857 
FUCHSIA: excorticata, 
New Zealand. Fuchsia, 
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OCTANDRIA MONOGYNLA. 
Nat. ord. ONAGRARIZ&. 
FUCHSIA. Supra fol. 847. 
F. excorticata, foliis alternis ovato lanceolatis subtus dealbatis, floribus axil- 
__ laribus solitariis: tubo basi strumoso, 
Skinnera excorticata. Forst. prodr. 163. ; 
F. excorticata. Linn. suppl. 217. Lamarck encycl. 2. 566. * Willd. sp. pl. 
2.340. Pers. syn. 2.411. Sie kak 
Rami leves, teretes, demum excorticantes. Folia semper alterna, 
longe 
distanter denticu- 
lata, dentibus glanduligeris, supra viridia opaca, subtus dealbata, absque 
pubescentia: stipule parve, ovate, acuminate, decidue, pubescentes. Flores 
solitarii, axillares, cernut, primum virides, demum purpuret. Calyx supe- 
tus, tubo basi spherico, strumoso, tetragono, sursum infundibulari tetragono, 
limbo tubi longitudine, 4-fido: laciniis ovato-lanceolatis, angulis tubi oppo- 
sitis, patentibus, triventis, ad margines parce pubescentibus. Petala 4, 
parva, ovata, atro-purpurea, in imo sinu calycis laciniarum inserta. . Stami- 
na 8, erecta, faciet tubi in eadem serie inserta, sinubus calycis opposita bre- 
viora ; filamenta glaberrima, atro-purpurea ; anthere oblonga, antice; bilo- 
culares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, connectivo carnoso, gibboso,. 
viridi filamentoso. Ovarium glaberrimum, ovale, 4-loculare, 
spermis. Stylus filiformis glaber, staminum longitudine ; 
pitatum, apice obscuré foveatum, omnind denudatum. 
polline 
‘e, loculis poly- 
stigma luteum ca- 
“ae 
Within less than a year have been introduced to this 
country not fewer than five new species of Fuchsia, of which 
this is certainly the most curious. It was raised at Mr. 
Colvill’s Nursery, from seed collected by Mr. J. Richardson 
in N. Zealand, where it was originally discovered by Fors- 
ter, who, mistaking the divisions of the calyx and the mi- 
nute petals for segments of a monopetalous corolla, sup- 
posed he had found the subject of a new genus, which he 
named Skinnera. jai 
From Fuchsia it differs in the remarkable and obvious 
circumstance of having alternate leaves; and apparently 
also in having the base of the tube of the calyx dilated into 
a large fleshy knot ; but a tendency towards presenting the 
latter appearance is discoverable in some genuine Species of 
Fuchsia. We have analyzed all the parts of fructification 
