Manettia coccinea (Aubl.) Willd.

Manettia coccinea (Aubl.) Wilid. Sp. PI. 1: 624. 1797
Nacibea coccinea Aubl. PI. Guian. 96. 1775.
Manettia unijlora H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 387. 1820.
Manettia havanensis H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 388. 1820.
Manettia cuspidata Bertero; Spreng. Syst. 1: 415. 1825.
? Manettia tenuifolia Schultes, in R. & S. Syst. Veg. Mant. 3: 145. 1827.
Bonvardia unijlora A. Rich. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 5: 272. 1834.
Bcuvardia havanensis A. Rich. Mem. Soc. Hist. Nat. Paris 5: 272. 1834. t
Manettia panamensis Uuchass. & Walp. Linnaea 23: 733. 1850.
Manettia costaricensis Wernham, Gen. Manettia 38. 1919.
Stems herbaceous or suffrutescent below, slender, angulate, glabrous, puberulent, or shortpilose, usually retrorse-pilose on the angles, the internodes short or elongate; stipules 1-2 mm. long, denticulate; petioles slender or stout, 2-14 mm. long; leaf-blades lanceolate, ovate, or ovate-oblong, 3-10 cm. long, 1-5 cm. wide, acute or obtuse at the base, often short-decurrent, acute or usually subabruptly acuminate at the apex, thin, bright-green above, glabrous or scaberulous, paler beneath, short-pilose, especially along the veins, or glabrous, the lateral veins conspicuous, arcuate; peduncles axillary, elongate, mostly 1 -flowered but often cymosely few-flowered, the pedicels slender, 1.5-6 cm. long; hypanthium 3-5 mm. long, contracted and slightly prolonged above the ovary, glabrous or short-pilose, the 8 calyx-lobes subequal, linear or oblanceolate, attenuate, 4-14 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely short-pilose, ciliate, recurved; corolla subsalverform, 1.7-2.8 cm. long, red, more or less pilose outside, densely barbate within at the base, sparsely barbate in the throat or naked, the lobes 4-5 mm. long, ovate or triangularoblong, glabrous within or nearly so; stamens inserted in the corolla-throat, included, the anthers 2.5-3 mm. long; capsule 6-10 mm. long, 6-8 mm. broad, thin; seeds 2-3 mm. broad, the wing pale-brown, the body dark-brown.
Type locality: French Guiana.
Distribution: Veracruz and Oaxaca, south to Colombia and the Guianas; Cuba, Jamaica, St. Vincent, and Trinidad.