Tas. 4818. 
BEFARIA astuans. 
Glowing Befaria. 
Nat. Ord. Ertcepm.—Prentanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4433.) 
Berarta estuans; ramis pedunculis calycibusque septemfidis ferrugineo-tomen- 
tosis, foliis oblongo-ovatis acutis planis subtus glaucis ferrugineo-tomentosis 
tomento demum obsoleto, racemis terminalibus, floribus amplis, petalis 7 
obovato-spathulatis erecto-patentibus, staminibus 7-14 corolla brevioribus, 
stylo corollam superante. 
Berarta estuans. Mutis, ec Linn. Mant. p.242. Suppl. p. 247. Vent. Choix 
des Plantes, sub n.52. Bonpl. Pl. Asquin. v. 1. p. 120. p. 118. De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 1. p. 731. Lindl. and Past. Fl. Garden, p. 85. Spreng. Syst. 
Veget. v. 2. p. 458. 
Acunna oblonga. Ruiz e¢ Pav. Fl. Perwo. Syst. p. 128. 
The Andian genus Befaria is an essentially beautiful one ; 
but, we suspect, very variable, and one that requires to be studied 
with great caution, for the well determining of the species*. 
Our specimen, here figured, was derived from the Messrs. Veitch 
as a hardy greenhouse shrub ; and they imported it through their 
collector, Mr. William Lobb, who detected it in the province of 
Chacapoyas, at an elevation of 8000 feet above the level of the 
sea. Dr. Lindley’s plant, figured in the ‘ Flower Garden,’ was 
obtained from the same source, Messrs. Veitch’s Nursery ; but 
it differs from our plant in the much longer style, in the pre- 
* We are the more led to make this remark because the authors of the 
‘Flower Garden,’ 1. c. p. 84, have, as it appears to us, committed a great error 
in stating that the B. coarctata, figured by us at our Pla ae 
arctata of Humboldt and Bonpland. This is, perhaps, inferred from the acci- 
dental mistake on our part of omitting the synonym of the ‘ Plante Aiquinoc- 
tiales,’ and by comparing the figure in their own work, instead of comparing It” 
with that of Humboldt and Bonpland. It would otherwise have been seen that — 
ours is the true coarctata, with the petals patent and a short style, instead of 
having the petals erect and subparallel, and the style almost twice as long as 
the corolla. 
NOVEMBER IsT, 1854. 
Plate 4433, is not the co- | oe 
