1860 



* MANfiTTIA cordifolia. 



Heart-leaved Manettia. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGyNlA. 

 Nat.ord. ClNCHONACE^. 



MANETTIA, Muds. Calycis tubus turbinatus, limbus partitus in lobos 

 tot quot corollini aut dupli, lobulis in sinubus saepe interpositis. Corolla infun- 

 dibuliformis, tubo tereti, fauce piloso-hirsuta, lobis 4, rarissime 5. AnthercB 

 in fauce sessiles. Capsula ovata, compressa, calycinis lobis coronata, ab apice 

 ad basin septicido dehiscens, raericarpiis cymbiformibus. Placentce a septo 

 subexsertae. Semina imbricata subsessilia peltata, margine membranaceo sae pills 

 dentato undique alata. Embryo erectus in albumine carnoso ; cotyledonibus 

 foliaceis lanceolatis. — Yievh^ per ennes, suffruticesve. Caules et rami voliibiles, 

 graciles. Folia, ovato-oblonga, aut subcordata. Stipulse latce, breves, acutcE, 

 scepius cum peliolorum basi subconcretce. Pedunculi axillares 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 

 1-floris. DC. I. c. 



M. cordifolia. Mart. spec, rnat, 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 

 trurnpet-shaped flowers in the month of June. It strikes 

 freely from cuttings. 



It has already been so well described by Dr. von Martins 

 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 placentae, 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. 



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