618 ONAGRACEAE. [ Puchsia. 
into a tubular or companulate 4-lobed limb. Petals 4, often small, rarely 
wanting, convolute, spreading or reflexed. Stamens 8; filaments filiform ; 
anthers linear or oblong. Ovary 4-celled ; style slender, elongated ; stigma 
capitate, entire or 4-lobed; ovules numerous, attached to the inner angle 
of the cells. Berry ovoid or oblong, fleshy, 4-celled, many-seeded. 
A beautiful and well-known genus of about 65 species, all of which, with the excep- 
tion of the 3 following, are natives of America, from Mexico to Fuegia. 
* Flowers pendulous. Petals present, small. 
Shrub or tree 10-40 ft. high. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate 1. F. excorticata. 
Small shrub with long straggling branches. Leaves ovate or 
orbicular-ovate .. win i ~ 2. F. Colensot. 
** Flowers erect. Petals wanting. 
Stems very slender, trailing. Leaves small, orbicular-ovate .. 3. FF. procumbens. 
1. F. excorticata Linn. f. Suppl. (1781) 217—A shrub or small tree 
40 ft. high; trunk usually 6-18 in. diam., but sometimes reaching 2-3 ft. ; 
bark thin, loose and papery; branches brittle. Leaves deciduous, 
alternate, 2-5 in. long including the slender petiole, ovate-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, acuminate, entire or obscurely and remotely toothed, thin and 
membranous, green above, pale and silvery beneath. Flowers 3-12 in. 
long, axillary, solitary, pendulous; peduncles long, slender. Calyx-tube 
inflated at the base, then suddenly contracted and again expanded into 
a funnel-shaped tube; lobes 4, acuminate, spreading. Petals 4, small. 
Stamens and style very variable in length. Berry oblong, purplish-black, 
juicy, 3 in. long.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1824) t. 857; A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) 
n. 533; Raoul Choirs (1846) 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 56; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864).75; TL. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 36, 36a; Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 180; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 186. Skinnera exorticata 
Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 58; Forst. f. Prodr: (1786) n. 163; A. Rich. Fl. 
Nouv. Zel. (1832) 331. 
NortH AND SoutH Isnanps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant from the North Cape 
to Stewart Island. AvcKitanp Istanps: Laurie Harbour, B. C. Aston / Sea-level 
to 3500 ft. Native fuchsia ; Kotukutuku ; of the fruit Konini. August—December. 
The flowers are trimorphic, there being a long-styled form in which the stamens 
have short filaments and often abortive anthers, and mid-styled and short-styled forms 
in which the stamens have longer filaments and perfect anthers, the last two apparently 
graduating into one another. For a detailed account see a paper by Mr. Kirk in the 
“ Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,” vol. xxv (1893}, p. 261. 
2.F. Colensoi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1867) 728—A small shrub 
with long straggling branches, sometimes producing slender flexuous 
unbranched shoots several feet in length. Leaves alternate, very variable 
In size, 3-2 in. long including the petiole, ovate or orbicular-ovate, rounded 
or cordate at the base, thin and membranous, entire or obscurely toothed ; 
petioles often longer than the blade. Flowers much as in F. excorticala, 
but shorter and proportionately broader, and petals smaller—T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 181; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 187. 
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Nortu anp Sourn Istanps, Stewart IstAnD: From the Northern Wairoa River 
southwards, but often local. Sea-level to 1500 ft. October—February. 
This is either a very variable plant, or two very distinct forms are included in‘the 
present conception of the species. 
