THE CLOSE-HEADED BEJARIA. 
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does not appear to have recoUected had been previously given to the subject of this plate 
was pointed out bv M. Herinm. whn ™ r^™^™™ ±1*- * « n ., . J 
This error 
pedes i?. Lvukniana. 
Tins plant has also flowered in the great collection at Syon, and was exlnbited by Mr. Ivison at one of 
the late exlnbitions m the garden of the Horticultural Society, when the accompanying figure was made 
It has much shorter hans on the stem even when young, and they soon gl ve way to a°mere fe^ 
down. 
flat 
with 
yellowish 
youn 
pink 
a darker rose-colour. In the Botanical Magazine their petals are represented as spreading 
as flat as those of a Mallow; but in the Syon plant they are closed, as in our cut. We suspect 
his to be very near Mr. Linden's B. tricolor, which is, however, said to be yellow at the base of 
the corolla. 
Closely related to these, but perhaps finer than any, is a plant raised by Messrs. Veitch & Co. 
ol Meter. We presume it to be that which Mutis 
called aatuans, because, it would seem, it glows 
like a fire. Mr. William Lobb found it in the pro- 
vince of Chachapoyas, at the height of 8000 feet, and 
describes the flowers as rose-coloured. Messrs. Veitch 
of Exeter have raised it. The branches are covered 
with 
coarse hairs. 
blackish bristles ; when 
The leaves are fringed with 
young they are covered 
with a rusty secretion ; when full grown 
on the upper. 
unde 
calyx and flower-stalks are shaggy 
with coarse hairs, and clamm, ^ 
which oozes out from the surface. 
Although we venture to attach to this species the 
name of mluans, judging from the definition of it in 
books, yet it is quite possible that it may be another 
species. 
M 
Mut i 
different. 
fi 
the habit of Rhodo- 
it must be something quite 
is distinct from Mr. Linden's 
B. ostium*, winch Jlerincq calls myrtlfolia, and winch 
is said to have long lanceolate leaves, very much nar- 
rowed towards the point. 
It may be worth while to add to these memo- 
randa a list of the Bejarias now or formerly in 
cultivation, with their supposed aliases : 
1. B. racemosa Vent. — Probably lost. 
Bejaria a$tuans % Mutis 
glauca H. 
ledifolia 1 
II 
■Formerly flowered at Ghent. 
EL des Serres, t. 194. 
Herincq {alias B. coarctata Hooker). — Bot. Mag., t. 4433. 
