[Plate 17.] 
THE CLOSE-HEADED BEJARIA. 
(BEJARIA COARCTATA.) 
toy-hardy evergreen Shrub, with crimson flowers, from the Andes of New Grenada, belonging 
to the Order of Heathworts. 
■giraffe Character* 
M» CLOSE-HEADED BEJARIA.— Branches shaggy I BEJARIA COARCTATA; ramis patentim villous, foliis 
with spreading hairs. Leaves oval, acute, on short stalks, ovalibus aeutis breviter petiolatis dense imbricatis margine 
revolutis subtus glaucis petiolo costaque villosis cflefteriim 
glabris, corymbls densissimis abbreviatis, pedunculis 
brevibus ferrugineo-tomentosis, calycibus glabriusculis, 
nAtnlid matin snbnarallelis. stvlo ionce exserto. 
closely imbricated, glaucous beneath ; the stalk and midrib 
sha ?gy, otherwise smooth. Flowers deep crimson, in 
very dose corymbs ; stalks short, covered with rusty wool ; 
the calyx nearly smooth. Petals erect, nearly parallel, 
(not spreading). Style long, projecting. 
B. coarctata : Humboldt and Bonpland, Plantiz cequinoctiales, vol. ii. p. 125, t 121 
J hm genus is little known in Europe. Mutis 
Linn 
written 
diffi 
er s in its petals being all 
under the erroneous name of Befaria. It should be 
It is nearly related to the Ehododendron, from which i 
united into a tube. The 
species inhabit the Alps of Peru and Mexico, where their beauty becomes fully developed 
tat of the Azaleas and Rhododendrons of the United States and India. 
The plant now figured seems to hare found its way to Europe both through England and Belgium. 
10 our own country it was sent by Mr. Purdiefor His Grace the late Duke of Northumberland; and 
» **> at Syon that it flowered, for the first time in Europe, in May last under the care of Mr. Iv ,n ; 
^ also believe that Mr. Linden's collectors, who found it near Pamplona, at the height of 8500 
5* •**> ^hed a supply of fresh seeds. A third traveller from whom it has been derived was 
IT 1 " 8 - Veitc ^ collector Lobb, who found it on the mountains of Peru. From one of bis s^nnci. 
^tart account of it was given in the Gardeners' Chronicle for 1848, with a woodcut which we 
produce for a. ^v. ^ .,. • the inferior appearaU ce of the plant in a wild state, and the 
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