Tab. 5495. 

 MANETTIA micans. 



Sliowy Manettia. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace^e — Tetkandbia Monogynia. 



Gen. Char. Calyx tubo turbinato, cum ovario connato ; limbi superi, quadri- 

 quinquepartiti, lobis lineari-lanceolatis, accessoriis dentibus totidem saepius inter 

 lobos. Corolla supera infuudibulif oralis, tubo tereti v. tetra-pentagono, fauce 

 ampliata pilosa ; limbi brevissime quadri-quinquefidi, lobis obtusis, patentibus v. 

 revolutis. Stamina 4 v. 5, corollse fauci iuserta ; fllamenta filiformia, subexserta ; 

 antherce ovatae, incumbentes. Ovarium infertmi, biloculare. Ovula plurima, pla- 

 centis cylindricis e basi dissepimenti utrinque adsceudentibus undique inserta, 

 amphitropa. Stylus filiformis; stigma obtuse bilobum, subexsertum. Capsula 

 membranacea, calycis limbo coronata, bilocularis, septicido-bivalvis. Semitia plu- 

 rima, compressa, peltata, imbricata, ala membranacea cincta. Embryo in axi 

 albuminis carnosi orthotropus ; cotyledonibus ovatis, subfoliaceis, radicula cylin- 

 drica infera. — Herbse v. suffrutices volubiles, in America tropica crescentes ; 

 ramis gracilibus; foliis oppositis, brevissime petiolatis v . subsessilibus, ovato-oblongis 

 v. subcordatis ; stipulis talis, brevibus, aculis, smpius cum petiolorum basi subcon- 

 cretis ; pedunculis axillaribus, uni-muUifloris, nudis v. medio bibracteolatis. Endl. 



Manettia micans; glaberrima, volubilis, foliis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acumi- 

 natis, ramulis floriferis (v. paniculis foliosis) elongatis, pedunculis bracteatis 

 1-3-floris, stipulis latis brevibus minute ciliatis, calycis laevibus, bmbi la- 

 ciniis lineari-subulatis, corolla biunciali, tubo clavato-cylindraceo, limbi 

 laciniis triangularibus patentibus. 



Manettia micans. Pcepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Peruv. v. S.p. 24. Walp. 

 Repert. Bot. «?. 2. p. 508. 



This fine species of Manettia is quite different from the Bra- 

 zilian M. cordifolia, given at our Tab. 3202, and quite new to 

 our collections ; hitherto only described by Pceppig and End- 

 licher as a native of woods of Mayna, in Peru. We possess 

 an original specimen from Pceppig, and others gathered in 

 Peru by M'Lean and by Mathews (Tarapota, n. 1343). It 

 has recently been imported by Messrs. Veitch, from Muna, ele- 

 vation 3-4000 feet, by their South American collector, Mr. 

 Pearce, and promises to be a most interesting stove-climber. 

 The leafy panicles of flowers are of the brightest red-orange. 



FEBBUABY 1ST, 1865. 



