A comparatively recent introduction to this country from Mexico;- now become common in our gardens, on account of its easy culture and the great beauty of its graceful. pendent racemes of long scarlet flowers. The leaves however, it must be confessed. are coarse and weedy looking, very different from the neat and glossy foliage of FUCHSIAS in general, and detract somewhat from the charm of the plant. It is too delicate to bear the winters in our climate ;--but it may readily be raised by seeds or cuttings, and young plants placed in the open border in the early summer will continue to flower till the autumnal frosts come on. Mr.CURTIS at his extensive Nursery of Glazenwood, (where this very beautiful drawing was made by Miss DALLY in the summer of 1839,) has succeeded in producing a great number of hybrids, by means of other species, and flowers of all kinds are the result, from the balloon form of the FUCHSIA globosa, to the peculiarly elongated figure here represented.
DESCR. Stem rather herbaceous and succulent than woody, terete, glabrous, more or less tinged with red. Leaves large, ovate or cordato-ovate, soft and flaccid, toothed at the margin, glabrous; petiole short, thick, tinged with red, as are the veins of the leaf, especially beneath. Flowers in long, terminal, pendulous, leafy racemes; leaves small, otherwise similar to those of the main branches. Pedicels slender. Ovary and young fruit elliptical, downy. Calyx bright red tipped with greenish, infundibuliform: tube very long, slender; limb of four erect, acuminated segments. Petals shorter than the calyx-segments, deep scarlet. Stamens included. Style longer than the calyx. Stigma capitate.