Fuchsia. | ONAGRACEAE. 619 
3, F. procumbens R. Cunn. ex 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, 
12 in. long; peduncles short, +-4in. 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. Le. Plant. (1842) 
t. 421; Raoul Choix (1846) 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 57; Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 76, 728; Bot. Mag. (1874) t. 6139; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. 
(1899) 181; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 187; IU. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) t. 56. 
Nortnu Istanp: Sandy and rocky places near the sea, rare and local. North 
Cape district, near Cape Maria van Diemen, coast between the North Cape and Parenga- 
renga Harbour, coast near Houhora, Adams and 7. F. C.; Ahipara and Waihi, 
R. H. Matthews and T. F. C.; Kawerua (Hokianga), Cockayne; Matauri Bay, R. 
Cunningham ; Whangaruru Harbour, 7’. Kirk; Whangarei Heads and coast near 
Ngunguru, 7’. F. C. ; Tryphena Harbour and Mine Bay (Great Barrier Island), 7’. Kirk ! 
A. J, Osborne! L. T. Griffin ! Cabbage Bay, Adams! and further Vier’ Ah bs MC, 
A beautiful and graceful little plant, remarkable for being the only species known 
with erect flowers. As in F. excorticata, the flowers are trimorphic. In the long-styled 
form the flowers are smaller and narrower, much less brightly coloured, the style is 
exserted far beyond the anthers, the stigma is very large, and the anthers rather smaller. 
"he mid-styled and short-styled forms appear to vary into one another: in the first the 
style usually equals the anthers, in the second it is shorter and included within the 
calyx-tube. The stamens are of equal length in all the forms. For additional remarks 
respecting the species, see the account given in the “ Illustrations of the New Zealand 
Flora ” under plate 56. 
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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 bs oe a .. 1. HALORAGIS. 
Aquatic. Calyx-lobes obscure. Stamens 4-8. Petals imbricate. 
Fruit separating into 2-4 nut-like carpels hs : 
Subaquatic or terrestrial. Stamens usually 2. Fruit a l-seeded 
drupe .. ie: ee nt he z «. 93. GUNNERA. 
2. MyRIOPHYLLUM. 
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