Pan: 7776. 
MANE TTIA wBreonor. 
Native of Brasil, 
Nat. Ord, Rupracea#.—Tribe CincHone®. 
Genus Mayertta, Matis; (Benth. & Hook, f. Gen, Plant, vol. ii. p. 37.) 
Manettta (Heterochroa) bicolor; frutex scandens, gracilis, ramosus, ramulis 
teretibus puberulis, foliis 2-6 poll. longis breviter petiolatis ovatis ovato- 
lanceolatisve acuminatis supra subscaberulis subtus pallidis nervis 
tomentellis, stipulis parvis late ovatis, floribus axillaribus et terminalibus, 
pedicellis corolla subsequilongis puberulis, calycis tubo parvo turbinato 
cinereo-tomentoso, lobis } poll. longis ovatis oblongisve acutis reflexis 
viridibus extus puberulis, corolla sepalis bis longiore cylindracea tereti a 
medio ad basin sensim ampliata setulis rigidis hispida coccinea apicem 
versus nuda aurea intus basin versus annulo pilorum instructa, ore 
paullo dilatato 4-fido lobis parvis triangularibus patulis, antheris lineari- 
oblongis infra medium tubi insertis, disco pulvinari, stylo gracili 
stigmatibus 2 linearibus, capsula globoso-pyriformi tomentosa. : 
M. bicolor, Paxt. Mag. Bot. vol. x. (1843) p. 27. Flore des Serres, vol. ii. 
p. 445, t. 6. Dietr. Fl. Univers. t.14, Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. xxi. (1895) 
p. 49. 
M. luteo-rubra, Benth. in Linnaea, vol. xxiii. (1850) p. 445. Schumann in Mart, 
Ft. Bras. vol. vi, pars vi. p. 174. 
M. filicaulis, Wawra in Uistr. Bot. Zeitschr. vol. xxxi. (1881) p. 281; in Bot. 
Reis. Pr. Sax Coburg, p. 118, t. 17. 
M. pubescens, partim, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnaea, vol. iv. (1829) p. 170. 
M. seabra, Herb. Pohl. 
Guaguebina luteo-rubra, Vel/, F/. Flum. vol. i. t. 121; tewtu Ed. Netto, p. 46. 
The beautiful and now well-known stove-climber here 
figured was imported into Europe from the Organ Mts. in 
Brasil by Mr. James Veitch, grandfather of the partners in 
the celebrated firm of that name, and founder, I believe, of 
the business, which was then carried on at Mount Radford, 
near Exeter. This was about sixty years ago, when 
William Lobb, then collecting for his firm in Brasil, 
sent home seeds. It appears to have a very wide range 
of distribution, for there are specimens in the Kew 
Herbarium from Uruguay, Paraguay, St. Catherine, 
Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Geraes all in Brasil. In the 
Royal Gardens, I am informed that it is never out of 
flower. 
The genus Manettia is a very large one, consisting 
of upwards of thirty species, spread over tropical America, 
May Ist, 1901, 
