Empalement. Cup one leaf, funnel-shaped, coloured, above and withering; border four divisions.
Blossom. Four petals, sitting close on the mouth of the cup, into which they are inserted.
Chives. Eight threads, unequal, thread-shaped, upright, fixed into the tube of the cup. Tips egg-shaped.
Pointal. Seed-bud beneath, egg-shaped. Shaft thread-shaped, upright, the length of the chives. Summit composed of small knobs.
Seed-vessel. A fleshy berry, egg-shaped, and four valves.
Seeds many, small, affixed to a pillar-shaped receptacle.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Fuchsia foliis ovatis undulatis, subternis; pedunculis unifloris, axillaribus; laciniis calycis reflexis.
Fuchsia with egg-shaped leaves, waved, and growing mostly by threes; foot-stalks with one flower growing from the insertion of the leaf, the segments of the cup reflexed.
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE.