MANETTIA BICOLOR. 
(Two-coloured flowered Manettia.) 
Class. 
TETRANDRIA, 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACE^. 
Gbnbric Character,— CaZ^/*- with a turbinate tube, 
and the limb parted into as many lobes as there are 
corolline segments, or double that number, and often 
furnished with lobules in the recesses between the 
segments. Corolla funnel-shaped, with a tube, a 
hairy throat, and a four or rarely five-parted limb. An- 
thers sessile in the throat. Capsule ovate, compressed, 
crowned by the calycine lobes, dehiscing from the apex 
to the base at the dissepiment. Seeds imbricate, al- 
most sessile, peltate, surrounded by a winged membra- 
nous border, which is usually toothed. Embryo erect. 
in a fleshy albumen, cotyledons foliaceous, lanceolate.— 
Don's Gard. and Botany. 
Specific Character.— P?ani a climbing shrub,' seem- 
ingly evergreen. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, lan- 
ceolate, somewhat pale green and acute, slightly glau- 
cous. Calyx having four or eight segments, which are 
lanceolate and reflexed. Corolla tubular, about 
three quarters of an inch long, a little swollen at the 
base, red below, yellow towards the top, with a spread- 
ing limb, the lobes of which are rather reflexed. 
This is another of the interesting plants which Messrs. Veitch and Son, of the 
Mount Radford nursery, Exeter, have added to our collections, through Mr. 
William Lobb, who found it on the Organ Mountains, in the interior of Rio 
Janeiro. Doubtless it exists, principally, at a considerable elevation, for it is 
proved to thrive best in the temperature of a greenhouse here. 
It is an elegant plant, with stronger stems and broader foliage than M. cordi- 
folia, but quite as graceful in its aspect. The flowers are, however, very much 
smaller than those of that species ; though their comparative diminutiveness is 
atoned for by their profusion, and by the pleasing combination of scarlet and deep 
yellow they present. Both these colours are very lively, and the red being at the 
base, and the yellow at the summit, they are particularly attractive. 
The species is valuable also, in the same way as M. cordifolia^ for blooming 
throughout such a lengthened period ; and it will be prized, moreover, because it 
seems naturally to come into flower in the month of March, and may, by the ap- 
plication of a trifling fire-heat, be made to blossom as early as January. Messrs. 
Yeitch apprised us, in February, that they then had it finely in bloom ; and we 
had observed it elsewhere a month previously. 
Although we have said that it demands merely a greenhouse heat, we must 
remark that we spoke of a rather close greenhouse, where the atmosphere is 
