Fugosia
(named in honour of Bernard Cienfugos, a Spanish botanist of the sixteenth century). SYNS. Cienfuegi, Cienfugosia, and Redoutea. ORD. Malvaceae. A genus comprising about a score species of greenhouse ever-green shrubs or sub-shrubs, natives of tropical America, Africa, and Australia. Flowers often yellow, surrounded by an outer calyx or involucel of six or more leaves, within which is a five-cleft calyx dotted over with black spots, and five oblique petals. Leaves entire or lobed, rarely partite. Fugosias succeed in a peat and loam soil, to which a little silver sand may be added. Propagated by cuttings, made in April or May, and inserted under a bell glass, mild bottom heat. The species here described are those usually seen in cultivation.
F. cuneiformis (wedge-shape-leaved). fl. red; petals about 1 1/2 in. long, slightly tomentose; involucre very small, minutely five or six-toothed, placed a little below the calyx; peduncles short and thick. June to August. l. cuneate-oblong or broadly linear-obtuse, 1in. to 2in. long, entire thick and somewhat fleshy. h. 15ft. West Australia. Shrubby and glabrous. SYNS. Hibiscus cuneiformis and Lagunaria cuneiformis.
F. hakeaefolia (Hake-leaved). fl. purple-lilac, large,on axilary peduncles, articulate, and often bearing a small bract about the middle; petals 1 1/2in. to 2in.long. August. l. from deeply bi-pinnatifid to tridid only, or the upper ones entire, often several inches long, the whole leaf or lobes narrow-linear, somewhat fleshy, grooved above or almost terete. h. 8ft. to 10ft. South Australian, 1846. An erect shrub, (B. M. 4261.) SYNS. Hibiscus Hakeaefolius and H. mulfifidus (P.F. G. vii. 103).
F. heterophylla (various-leaved). fl. yellow, with purple claws. June. l. cilliated, elliptical, entire, rarely trifid. h. 3ft. South America, 1822. SYN. Redoutea heterophylla. (B. M. 4218.)