connected with the base of the petioles into a very short broad mem- 
brane, sometimes projecting on each side into a short point. PepuN- 
CLES terminal, but becoming apparently axillary by the elongation of 
the stem on one side only, about two inches long, slender, ebracteate. 
Divisions of the Catyx ovate, or lanceolate, varying in size, but usu- 
ally rather longer than the tube, narrowed at the base, and in each 
interval is a very small accessary tooth. Coroxta of a rich red, above 
an inch and a half long, tube narrowed at the base, ample in the up- 
per part, perfectly glabrous, and marked with four angles outside, fur- 
nished inside near the base with four longitudinal rows of appressed 
hairs, throat glabrous, limb of four broad, short, rather unequal and 
reflexed divisions. FILAMENTS projecting about a line beyond the 
throat. 
PopuLar anp GeocrapuicaL Notice. This Manettia with the 
Manettia gracilis, pubescens, and villosa, of Chamisso and Schlech- 
tendal, the Manettia attenuata of Nees and Martius, the Guagnebina 
ignita of the Flora Fluminensis, v. 1, t. 115, and a Peruvian species, 
probably new, form a distinct section, differing in several particulars 
from Decandolle’s generic character, which we have modified accord- 
ingly. ix pecies th parated, are natives of Southern 
Brazil, Peru, and the Argentine States. The roots of one species 
at least, are in high estimation among the natives for their medicinal 
folia was first raised in this country by Dr. Neill of Canon Mills, 
Edinburgh, in 1831, from seeds sent by Mr. Tweedie from the neigh- 
bourhood of Buenos Ayres. Our drawing was made at Mr. Hender- 
son's, Pine Apple Place, Edgeware Road. Although a stove plant, 
this Manettia will probably succeed in the greenhouse. We planted 
it out of doors, against a south wall, early in June, where now, in Sep- 
tember, it has attained the height of ten feet, but without promise of 
flowers. 
DERIVATION oF THE Name. 
“Manertia, named by Matis and Linnzus in honour of Xavier Manetti, Curator 
tanic Garden at Florence, about the middle of the last century. 
: SynonyMes, . 
Manertra coRrPirotta, Martius: Specimen Materia Medicw Brasiliensis 
p. 19,t. a Decandolle: Prodromus v. IV, p: 363. Botanical Register, t. 1866: 
t 
Magazine, t. : 
-MANETTIA Gtapra, Chamisso and Schlechtendal: Linnea, v. IV, p. 169. 
