Fuchsia. | ONAGRACEAE. 619 
3. F. procumbens R. Gunn. ea A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 534.—Stems 
very slender, much branched, prostrate and trailing, often several feet long. 
Leaves alternate; blade 1-2 in. long, rounded-ovate or almost orbicular, 
cordate at the base, obscurely sinuate-toothed, membranous ; petioles 
very slender, longer than the blade. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect, 
1 2in. long; peduncles short, }-in. Calyx-tube cylindric, without raised 
ridges, pale-orange ; lobes sharply reflexed, purple at the tips, green at the 
base. Petals wanting. Stamens erect, always exserted; filaments slender. 
Style longer or shorter than the stamens, or equal to them. Berry large, 
oblong or obovoid, 2 in. long, bright-red, glaucous.—Hook. Lc. Plant. (1842) 
t. 421; Raoul Choix (1846) 49; Hook. f. Fi. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 57 ; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 76, 728; Bot. Mag. (1874) t. 6139; 7. Kirk Students’ FI. 
(1899) 181: Oheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 187; IU. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 56. 
new species. 
Fuchsia perscandens Ckn. & Allan. 
North and South Is. .. forests near 
Fielding - Sounds - Nelson Bot. Dist, ; 
Worth Western, and Hastern Botanical Dists. 
Todt Zines vol. oy a De Od. Ckn. & Allan. 
riora ° under plate ob. 
Family LXXV. HALORAGIDACEAE. 
Herbs, often aquatic, rarely undershrubs. Leaves opposite, alternate, 
ot whorled, when submerged often pectinately pinnatifid ; stipules wanting. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, always small and often incomplete. 
Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary; lobes 2, 4, or wanting. Petals 2, 4, or 
wanting, valvate or slightly imbricate. Stamens 2 or 4-8, rarely 1 or 3, 
large, epigynous; filaments short, filiform; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 
inferior, compressed, angled or ribbed, rarely 2—4-winged, 2- or 4-celled, 
rarely 3-celled ; styles 1-4, distinct ; stigmas papillose or plumose ; ovules 
as many as the styles, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit small, dry or succu- 
lent, 1—4-celled, indehiscent or separating into 1—4 indehiscent carpels. 
Seeds solitary in the cells, pendulous; albumen fleshy, usually copious ; 
embryo cylindrical, axile. 
A small family of mostly inconspicuous plants, many of them water-weeds. 
Genera 8; species about 90. Of the 3 New Zealand genera, Haloragis is mainly 
Australian, but extends northwards to China and Japan, and westwards to Juan 
Fernandez and Chile; Myriophyllum is practically cosmopolitan; while Gunnera is 
confined to the South Temperate Zone. 
Terrestrial, Calyx 4-lobed. Stamens 4-8. Petals valvate. 
Fruit nut-like, undivided J, cE i .. 1. HALORAGIS. 
Aquatic. Calyx-lobes obscure. Stamens 4-8, Petals imbricate. 
Fruit separating into 2-4 nut-like carpels .. 2. MYRIOPHYLLUM. 
Subaquatic or terrestrial. Stamens usually 2. Fruit a 1-seeded 
drupe .. = + -¢: 43 ¥ .. 3. GUNNERA. 
