Part 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 85 
Capsule depressed, not angled; pubescent 
shrubs with deciduous leaves: flowers in 
panicled racemes. 31. ARSENOCOCCUS, 
Anther-sacs opening lengthwise; capsule marginicidal. 32. EPIcaEa. 
Calyx accrescent and enclosing the capsule. 33. GAULTHERIA. 
Capsule enclosed in the persistent corolla; calyx not accrescent. 
Corolla longer than the calyx, the lobes shorter than the tube. 34, ERIcA. 
Corolla shorter than the calyx, the lobes longer than the tube. 35. CaLLUNA. 
Ovary ripening into a berry or a drupe. 
Cavities of the ovary many-ovuled; fruit a berry. 
Berry smooth; panicles 1-few-flowered near the tip of the 
branches, inconspicuous. 36. PERNETTIA. 
Berry granular-papillose; panicles several-flowered, more or less 
elongate, often clustered. 37. ARBUTUS. 
Cavities of the ovary 1-ovuled; fruit a drupe. 
Leaves persistent and evergreen, the blades thick; drupes dry, 
mealy, or fleshy. 
Drupe papillose or warty, fleshy, the stone of few firmly united 
carpels. 38. COoMAROSTAPHYLIS. 
Drupe smooth, glabrous or pubescent, not fleshy, the stone of 
separate or irregularly coalescent nutlets, or sometimes 
of several firmly united carpels. 
Panicles simple, single or clustered; carpels (nutlets) -1- 
celled; leaves alternate. 
Leaves not vertical, the blades revolute; bark grayish- 
brown, persistent or very tardily exfoliating; fila- 
ments filiform or slightly dilated near the base; car- 
pels united into a woody 3-5-celled stone. 39, XyLococcus. 
Leaves often vertical and similar on both surfaces, the 
blades flat or very slightly revolute; bark reddish- 
brown, readily exfoliating; filaments much dilated; 
carpels separate or more or less coalescent, or rarely 
united. 40. Uva-ursi. 
Panicles compound, much-branched throughout; carpels 
(nutlets) 2-celled by a partition from the inner angle; 
leaves opposite or whorled. 41. ORNITHOSTAPHYLOS. 
Leaves marcescent, the blades thin; drupes juicy. 42. ARcToUus. 
1. BEFARIA* Mutis; L. Mant. 152, 242. 1771, 
Jurgensenia Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 20!: 151. 1847. 
Shrubs with erect, usually much-branched stems, the branches usually with fine pubescence 
or scurf, and also hirsute or hispid hairs. Leaves alternate, often numerous, sometimes crowded; 
blades narrow’ or broad, thick, entire, often glaucous, sessile or short-petioled. Flowers 
perfect, in terminal panicles, usually viscid. Calyx campanulate; lobes 6 or 7, short and 
broad, as long as the tube or shorter. Corolla white or colored, often pink, yellowish, or red; 
petals ascending or spreading, narrow, unequal, many times as long as the calyx. Stamens 
erect or ascending, as long as the petals or shorter; filaments slender, glabrous or pubescent; 
anthers much shortér than the filaments, oblong or oval. Ovary 6- or 7-celled, lobed, depressed; 
style elongate, curved, scarcely enlarged under the stigma; stigma discoid. Capsule de- 
pressed, shallowly 6- or 7-lobed, 6- or 7-valved, septicidal. 
Type species, Befaria aestuans L,. 
Leaf-blades linear or nearly linear, strongly revolute. 1. B. cubensis. 
Leaf-blades broader, not revolute. 
Petals less than 3 cm. long. 
Branches glabrous or nearly so; leaf-blades acuminate. 2. B. laevis, 
Branches pubescent; leaf-blades obtuse, acute, or mucronate. 
Flower-stalks longer than the petals; capsules much depressed. 3. B. discolor. 
Flower-stalks shorter than the petals; capsules slightly depressed. 4. B. racemosa. 
Petals more than 3 cm. long. 5. B. mexicana. 
1. Befaria cubensis Griseb. Cat. Pl. Cub. 52. 1866. 
Shrub with scurfy and viscid-hirsute branches; leaves numerous and usually crowded, 
the blades linear or nearly linear, 2-7 cm. long, acute or acutish, bright-green and glabrous 
above, glaucous and glabrous beneath, except the stout midrib, narrowed at the base but 
sessile; flowers long-peduncled, the peduncles with thick narrow scales below the middle; 
* Spelling corrected to Bejaria by Ventenat (Descr. Pl. Cels pl. 51. 1802), upon the supposition 
that Mutis intended to name the genus in honor of his friend Bejar; Bejeria is here treated as a mere 
variant spelling. 
