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CLOSE-HEADED BEKARIA (Befario 



ctata). 



The Befarias are a semis of plants 

 districts of Peru. The apparently 

 undersides. The purple flowers for 



elated to the Rhododendrons. The species illustrated is a native of the Alpine 

 owiU-il. but really alternate leaves are oblong-, smooth and leathery, with grey 

 a terminal corymb, and their footstalks and sepals are covered with rusty cotton. 



