. The natural history of plants. Botany. 470 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Fuchsii ampliata. less fleshy, and petals sessile and contorted. In Skinnera^ formerly generically distinguished, the petals are small and sometimes even wanting. When they exist, they are either, as in Fuchsia proper,^ con- torted and contiguous, or expanded as in Eudiandra? The latter has, moreover, polygamous flowers. These variations have served to arrange in three different sections, the species, ahout forty in number, constituting the genus Fuchsia, which are shrubs or small delicate trees, sometimes sub- shrubby pla
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 470 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. Fuchsii ampliata. less fleshy, and petals sessile and contorted. In Skinnera^ formerly generically distinguished, the petals are small and sometimes even wanting. When they exist, they are either, as in Fuchsia proper,^ con- torted and contiguous, or expanded as in Eudiandra? The latter has, moreover, polygamous flowers. These variations have served to arrange in three different sections, the species, ahout forty in number, constituting the genus Fuchsia, which are shrubs or small delicate trees, sometimes sub- shrubby plants from Mexico, South America, chiefly the western parts, also from New Zealand, with opposite, verticillate or alternate leaves, gene- rally petiolate, entire or dentate, and with elegant flowers,^ axillary, solitary or fasciculate, more rarely united in corymbs or terminal clus- ters, simple or compound, sometimes long and flexible, charged with small cymes, with the peduncles or floral pedicels generally long slender and Fig. 439. Long. sect, of flower. ' Eufuchsia.—Fuchsia Spach, Suit. A Buffon, iv. 404.—Kiersehlegtria Space, loc. cit. 403, N. Ann. Mus. iv. 330.—Sohufla Spach. S. S, Buffon, 411.—Desmoul. Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxir. —Ellobium Lilja, Zinnma, xt. 262.—Spachia LiLJA, loc. cit. (not A. Jnss.).—IfaltusiaSciiissii. Ic. u. 21.—Quelusia Vandell.—Velloz. Fl. Flvm. iv. t. 6.—Dorvalia Commeks. (ex Eni)L.). —Thilco Feuill. Obs. iii. 64, t. 49. ^ Zuoc. Abh. Bayer. A Jcad. Wiss. ii. 335.— Myrinia Lilja, Linncea, xv; 262.—Brebissonia Spach, Ann. Sc. Nat. s4r. 2, iii. 175; Nouv. Ann. Mus. It. 329; Suit, d Buffon, iv. 401.— Lyciopsis Spach, Nouv. Ann, Mus. iv. 329. ' Endl. loc. cit.—B. H. Qen. 791 : 1. Fnclian- dra: flowers polygamous; petals open; stamens short; 2. Flufiichsia: flowers hermaphrodite ; petals none or convolute; stamens exserted; 3. Skinnera : flowers hermaphrodite; petals little developed; seeds small. * E. et Pav
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