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calyx-lobes ovate to deltoid; petals deep-red, spatulate or oblong-spatulate, 1.5~-2 cm. long; 
filaments glabrous; style slender; capsules much depressed, 5-7 mm. wide, depressed at the 
style-base. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Western Cuba. 
DISTRIBUTION: Pinar del Rio, Cuba. 
2. Befaria laevis Benth. Pl. Hartw. 65. 1840. 
Befaria glabra Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 91: 543. 1842. 
Shrub with glabrous or nearly glabrous branches; leaves not crowded, the blades lanceolate 
to linear-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, somewhat acuminate, bright-green and slightly shining 
above, rather dull beneath, glabrous or nearly so, short-petioled; flowers on rather slender 
slightly scurfy peduncles; calyx-lobes ovate to reniform-ovate, obtuse; petals spatulate to 
oblong-spatulate, 12-18 mm. long; filaments minutely pubescent near the slightly dilated 
bases; anthers about 1.5 mm. long; style stoutish; capsules not seen. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Tabaa [‘‘Talea’’], Oaxaca. 
DistRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
3. Befaria discolor Benth. Pl. Hartw. 65. 1840. 
Befaria flortbunda Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9': 543. 1842. 
Jurgensenia méxicana Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 20!: 151. 1847. 
Shrub with glandular-hispid branches; leaves not crowded, the blades ovate or elliptic 
to oval, 2.5-5 cm. long, obtuse or abruptly pointed, shining and glabrous above, glaucous and 
slightly pubescent, especially on the midrib beneath, short-petioled; flowers on stoutish hispid 
peduncles; calyx-lobes ovate to deltoid-ovate, obtuse; petals spatulate, 14-19 mm. long; 
filaments pubescent at the slightly dilated bases; anthers about 2 mm. long; style stout; 
capsules much depressed, 6-7 mm. wide. 
Tyre LocaLity: Tabaa [‘‘ Talea”’}, Oaxaca. 
DISTRIBUTION: Oaxaca. 
4. Befaria racemosa Vent. Descr. Pl. Cels pl. 51. 1802. 
Befaria paniculata Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 280. 1803. 
Shrub with puberulent and more or less hispid branches; leaves rather humerous, but 
not crowded, the blades oblong, elliptic, or oval, varying to broadest above the middle or 
below it, 1.5-4 cm. long, acute or obtuse, glabrous, lustrous above, dull and paler-green beneath, 
sometimes glaucescent, short-petioled, or narrowed to the sessile base; flowers short-peduncled, 
the peduncles with broad scales above the middle; calyx-lobes broadly ovate to deltoid-reni- 
form; petals white or pink, spatulate or linear-spatulate, 2-2.5 cm. long; filaments pubescent; 
style stout; capsules slightly depressed, 7-9 mm. wide, abruptly narrowed into the style-base. 
Tyee LocaLity: Florida, 
DistrisuTIon: Southeastern Georgia and Florida. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Vent. Deser. Pl. Cels pl. 51; Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. pl. 26. 
5. Befaria mexicana Benth. Pl. Hartw. 15. 1839. 
Shrub with scurfy-hirsutulous branches; leaves numerous, the blades oblong to oblong- 
lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, acute or mucronate, sparingly pubescent, bright-green and some- 
what shining above, glaucous beneath, short-petioled; flowers on long stout peduncles, the 
peduncles densely reddish-pubescent; calyx-lobes ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse; petals 
oblong-spatulate, 3-4 cm. long; anthers 2.5-3 mm. long; style stout; capsules not seen.’ 
TYPE LOcALIty: [Zacatecas,] Mexico. 
DisTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLUSTRATION: Seem. Bot. Voy. Herald #1. 57. 
2. LEDUM L. Sp. Pl. 391. 1753. 
Shrubs with tall or diffuse and depressed stems. Leaves alternate; blades thick, broad or 
narrow, entire, often strongly revolute, tomentose or resinous-granuliferous beneath, petioled. 
