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Fuchsia.] 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., p. 261.

2. F. Colensoi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 728.— A small shrub with long stragyHng branches, sometimes producing slender tlexuous unbranched shoots several feet in length. Leaves alternate, very variable in size, ½–2 in. long including the petiole, ovate or orbicular-ovate, rounded or corriate at the base, thin and membranous, entire or obscurely toothed; petioles often longer than the blade. Flowers much as in F. excorticata, but shorter and proportionately broader, and petals smaller.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 181.

3. F. procumbens, ''R. Cunn. ex A. Cunn. Precur.'' n. 534.—Stems very slender, much branched, prostrate and trailing, often several feet long. Leaves alternate; blade ¼–¾ in. long, roundedovate or almost orbicular, cordate at the base, obscurely sinuate-toothed, membranous; petioles very slender, longer than the blade. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect, ½–¾ in. long; peduncles short, ¼–½ 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, ¾ in. long, bright-red, glaucous.—''Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 421; Raoul, Choix, 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 57; Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 76. 728; ''Bot. Mag. t. 6139; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 181. F. Kirkii, ''Hook. f. in Ic. Plant.'' t. 1083.





Climbing herbs or shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves usually alternate, entire or lobed or palmateiy divided, stipulate; petiole generally provided with glands. Tendrils often present, axillary. Flowers