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MANETTIA corpDIFOLIA. HEART-LEAVED | 
MANETTIA. 
KEKE EEE EKER KKK KE 
Class and Order. | 
Terranpria Monocynia. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ruvsiscea. ) 
Generic Character. 
Cal. 4A—5-s. 8—10-partitus.- Cor. tubulosa 4—5-fida. 
Stam. 4—b fauciinserta. Caps. bilocularis. Sem. alata. Spr. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Manertia* cordifolia; glaberrima, caule suffruticoso volu- 
bili ramis teretibus, foliis cordatis acuminatis utrinque 
nitidis, stipulis amplexicaulibus acuminatis, pedunculis 
axillaribus unifloris folio longioribus, calyce 4-lobo 
lobulis minimis interjectis, corolla fauce nudo dilatato. 
Manertia cordifolia. Mart. Specim. Mat. Med. Bras. v. 1. 
p.19.t.7. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 363. | 
Mayertia glabra. Chamisso et Schlecht. Linn. 1829. p. 169. 
De Cand. Prod. v. 4. p. 363. Vie oe 
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Descr. Whole plant glabrous. Stem suffruticose, much 
branched, very slender, round, twining; bark grey and ex- 
foliating, on the young shoots green, glabrous, shining. 
Leaves (two inches long, one inch broad, but gradually 
smaller, and the uppermost about four lines long, two lines: 
broad, while the low and largest on a vigorous cultivated 
specimen, are four inches long, and nearly two and a half 
broad) opposite, petioled, cordate, acuminate, glabrous on 
both sides, shining, pale, with prominent veins and obscure, ; 
minute, reticulations, below dark, and the veins slightly 
channelled above. Stipules small, subulate, and at length — 
often reflexed in their upper half, bases broad and connate 
Within the petioles, so as to form a small cup, which is ; 
occasionally toothed, round the branch. Peduncles elon-. 
gated, solitary, glabrous, filiform, shining and single-flo é 
red, 
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Ficore. 
* Named in honour of Xavrer Manettt, a Florentine Professor of Botany. 
