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does not appear to have recollected had been previously given to the subject of this plate. This error 

 was pointed out by M. Herincq, who, in reproducing the figure, called the species B. Lindeniana. 

 This plant has also flowered in the great collection at Syon, and was exhibited by Mr. Ivison at one of 

 the exhibitions in the garden of the Horticultural Society, when the accompanying figure was made. 

 It has much shorter hairs on the stem even when young, and they soon give way to a mere ferruginous 

 down. The leaves are perfectly smooth, longer-stalked, flat, spreading, oblong, becoming blunt, 

 although often sharp-pointed when young; and instead of the rich deep green of the close-headed 

 Bejaria, they have a yellowish cast. The flowers, which are in loose corymbs, are pale pink, streaked 

 with 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 

 this 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. Yeitch & Co. 

 of Exeter. We presume it to be that which Mutis 

 called cEstuans, 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. Yeitch 

 of Exeter have raised it. The branches are covered 

 with coarse hairs. The leaves are fringed with 

 blackish bristles; when young they are covered 

 beneath with a rusty secretion ; when full grown they 

 are very glaucous on the under-side, and dark green 

 on the upper. The calyx and flower-stalks are shaggy 

 with coarse hairs, and clammy with a- sticky juice 

 which oozes out from the surface. 



Although we venture to attach to this species the 

 name of cestuans, judging from the definition of it in 

 books, yet it is quite possible that it may be another 

 species. Indeed, if M. Herincq is right in stating 

 that the plant of Mutis has the habit of Rhodo- 

 dendron ferrugineum, it must be something quite 

 different. ~No doubt it is distinct from Mr. Linden's 

 B. cestuans, which Herincq calls myrtifolia, and which 

 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 : ■ Bejaria astuans, Mutis. 



1. B. racemosa Vent. — Probably lost. 



2. B. glaucai?. B. — Formerly flowered at Ghent. 



3. 13. ledifolia II. B.—Fl des Series, t. 194. 



4. B. Lindeniana Herincq (alias B. coarctata Hooker). — Bot. Mag., t. 4133. 



5. B. coarctata //. B. 



