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Stipules oblong, obtuse, sheathing. Panicle brachiate, 
patent: peduncle alternately compressed. Flowers white 
with an erubescent tinge. Capsule scarcely an inch in 
length, black. 
This is another of the spurious Cinchonas. It was in- 
troduced into notice, under the designation of Cinchona 
Sanctue Lucias, in a paper published by Dr. Kentish, en- 
titled “ Observations on a new species of Bark.” There 
is a paper also on the same subject by Dr. Davidson, in 
the Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 74, for 
the year 1784. Several French physicians have also 
written on the subject. The bark is very bitter and nau- 
seous, and apt to excite vomiting and purging: and is 
said to be powerfully febrifuge. M. Van Mons obtained 
from it a white christallizable principle, of extreme bitter- 
ness, to which he gave the name of Montanine. Not- 
withstanding all that had been said and written in favour 
of this Bark, it has failed to obtain a place in the Pharma- 
copeias, and has fallen into complete neglect. 
III. Manettia. 
Calycine tube turbinate: limb divided into the 
same number of lobes as the corolla, or double. 
Corolla funnel-shaped ; tube terete, throat piloso- 
hirsute, with the lobes 4, very rarely 5. Anthers 
sessile in the throat. Capsule ovate, compressed, 
crowned with the calyx, dehiscent at the sepia 
from the apex to the base : seeds imbricated, 
with the margin membranaceous. 
Named in honor of Xavier Manetti, Prefect of the Bo- 
tanic Garden at Florence. 
a. Calycine lobes 8. 
1. Manettia lygistum. Privet-like Manettia. 
Stem suflruticose flexuoso-scandent, branches 
filiform, leaves ovate acute veined slightly scab- 
rous along the under surface of the nerves, stip- 
ules very short subulate, peduncles axillary longer 
than the leaf many-flowered. 
