Manettia dominicensis Wernham

Manettia dominicensis Wernham, Gen. Manettia 37
1919.
Manettia calycosa Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 330, in part. 1861.
Stems herbaceous, slender, angulate, shortly retrose-pilose on the angles, elsewhere puberulent or glabrous; stipule-sheath 1-2 mm. long, the lobes deltoid, cuspidate, glandularciliate; petioles stout, 3-10 mm. long; leaf-blades ovate, ovate-oblong, or broadly ovate, 3.5-9 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the base, subabruptly acuminate to long-attenuate at the apex, thin, glabrous, or sparsely short-pilose beneath along the veins, the lateral veins conspicuous, slender, arcuate; inflorescence axillary, cymose, few-flowered, sessile or short-pedunculate, the pedicels mostly 1-2 cm. long or shorter; bracts often large and foliaceous; hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely strigose, the calyx-lobes 4 or 5, broadly ovate to lance-linear, 5-10 mm. long, acute or acuminate, ciliate; corolla white or red, the tube stout, 8-13 mm. long, sparsely short-villous outside, pilose within near the base, the lobes broadly ovate, 3-5.5 mm. long; anthers included; capsule 4-5 mm. broad, thin.
TvPB locality: Dominica. Distribution: Dominica and St. Vincent.