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THE CLOSE-HEADED BEJAKIA. 
nature of the hairiness, which is merely represented by colour in M. Constant figure. It lias 
hirsute branches, woolly flower-stalks, and a nearly 
smooth calyx, with seven or eight smoothish, blunt, 
ovate sepals, whose edges are a little woolly. The 
flowers are deep rich crimson, and very closely 
arranged. Each consists of seven or eight smooth 
petals. The leaves, when very young, are in the wild 
plant woolly on the under-side ; when full grown are 
perfectly smooth, shining, rather convex, nearly 
sessile, and glaucous on the under-side. The nature 
of tne longer hairiness is peculiar, and is more like 
Bejaria coarcla from a wild specimen. 
what Botanists call raments than 
ordinary hairs, that is to say, it 
consists of long narrow thin plates 
tapering to a point, filled with a 
brown fluid, and composed of many 
rows of cells. 
Mixed 
up with 
t hem is a close wool or fur, much 
shorter, and composed of curved, or 
hooked, entangled, also brown, hairs. 
We have little doubt that this 
is the plant represented by Hum- 
boldt and Bonpland under the name 
coarctata, notwithstanding 
their 
of B. 
some small discrepancy m their 
description of the hairiness ; for we 
know that such mountain plants vary 
much in the amount and nature 
of the wool that invests them at 
(liferent seasons. The species is, 
however, totally diiferent from what 
is pubhshed in the Botanical Magazine, 
B. Lindeniana. 
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