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1866 
* MANETTIA cordifolia. 
Heart-leaved Manettia. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CincHONACcEXR. 
MANETTIA, Mutis. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus partitus in lobos 
tot quot corollini aut dupli, lobulis in sinubus saepe interpositis. Corolla infun- 
dibuliformis, tubo tereti, fauce piloso-hirsutä, lobis 4, rarissime 5. Anthere 
in fauce sessiles. Capsula ovata, compressa, calycinis lobis coronata, ab apice 
ad basin septicidò dehiscens, mericarplis cymbi ormibus. Placente è septo 
subexserte. Semina imbricata subsessilia peltata, margine membranaceo see pits 
dentato undiquè alata. Embryo erectus in albumine. carnoso; cotyledonibus 
foliaceis lanceolatis.—Herbe perennes, suffruticesve. Caules et rami volubiles, 
graciles. Folia ovato-oblonga, aut subcordata. Stipulee late, breves, acute, 
sepius cum petiolorum basi subeoncrete. Pedunculi azillares uni aut mul- 
tiflori. DC. prodr. 4. 362. 
M. cordifolia ; caule herbaceo volubili tereti scabriusculo, foliis ovatis basi cor- 
datis apice acutis utrinque subtiliter pubescentibus, pedunculis axillaribus 
l-floris, DC. l. e, 
M. cordifolia. Mart. spec. mat. med. bras. p. 19. t. 7. 
A beautiful hothouse climber, running to the length of 
four or five feet, and clothed with a profusion of scarlet 
trumpet-shaped flowers in the month of June. It strikes 
freely from cuttings. 
It has already been so well described by Dr. von Martius 
that I have nothing to add, except that I do not find the 
corolla hairy on the inside; the ovules are arranged in an 
unusual manner, upon cylindrical placente, which spring 
from near the base of the dissepiment, (fig. 1 and 2). 
* So called after Xavier Manetti, a Professor of Botany at Florence, who 
published a work on Italian Fruit Trees in 1751* à 
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