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618 ONAGRACEAE. [ Fuchsia. 
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 iner 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. 4’. excorticata. 
Small shrub with long straggling branches. Leaves ovate or 
orbicular-ovate .. 2. F. Colensoi. 
** T'lowers erect. Petals wanting. 
Stems very slender, trailing. Leaves small, orbicular-ovate 
| peer ervuraety 1 (1803) 50; Handb. 
arse ev. (1004).70; TT. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 36, 364; 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 Soutu Isnanps, Stewart Istanp: Abundant from the North Cape 
to Stewart Island. AuckLanp Is~tANDS: Laurie Harbour, B. C. Aston / Sea-level 
to 3500 ft. Nave 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. excorticaia, 
but shorter and proportionately broader, and petals smaller—T. Kirk 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 181; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 187. 
Norte AnD Sours Istanps, Stewart Istanp: 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, | 
