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United, as the inferior ovary with the calyx-tube.

Differs from Liliaceæ chiefly in the inferior ovary.

FUCHSIA, so named by Plumier in honour of the botanist Leonhard Fuchs, a genus of plants of the natural order Onagraceae, characterized by entire, usually opposite leaves, pendent flowers, a funnel-shaped, brightly coloured, quadripartite, deciduous calyx, 4 petals, alternating with the calycine segments, 8, rarely 10, exserted stamens, a long filiform style, an inferior ovary, and fruit, a fleshy ovoid many-seeded berry.

This tribe is sometimes regarded as a separate order Vacciniaceae, distinguished by its inferior ovary.

It appears at the base of the corolla, at the summit of the inferior ovary, and is known as pappus.