manettia

[Named after Xavier Manetti, prefect of the botanical garden at Florence, and author of Regnum Vegetabile, 1756. ( Paxton.)] Bot.: A genus of Cinchona cere, family Cinch on ide. It consists of climbing undershrubs from tropical America. The root of Manettia cord i folia is valued in Brazil as a medicine in dropsy and dysentery. sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. maneuver