Tas. 113i, 
CARAGUATA AnGustrronia. 
Native of New Granada. 
Nat. Ord. Brownitacea- tribe TILLANDSIEZ, 
Genus Caracuata, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 668.) 
CARAGUATA angustifolia ; acaulis, cespitosa, foliis pluribus linearibus acumi- 
_ natis obscure lepidotis facie canaliculatis, pedunculo brevi foliis reductis 
occulto, floribus in spicam brevem densam multifariam aggregatis, bracteis 
splendide rubris inferioribus ovato-lanceolatis centralibus oblongis, calycis 
Segmentis parvis oblongis, corollz lutew tubo cylindrico, segmentis brevi- 
bus oblongis obtusis, staminibus ad corolle faucem uniseriatis filamentis 
brevissimis, antheris primum connatis demum liberis. 
C. angustifolia, Baker in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. xxii. p. 616; Handb. Bromel. 
p. 144. ; 
Guzmania Bulliana, André in Rev. Hort. 1886, p. 324, 
G. angustifolia, Wittm. in Engler Jahrb, vol. xi. p. 62. 
This is a very interesting and distinct dwarf Bromeliad. 
Both the bracts and flowers are brightly coloured, and keep 
so for a long time, and it differs greatly in habit from all its 
allies by its numerous narrow long-pointed leaves. Bo- 
tanically it forms a link of connection between Caraguata 
and Guzmania, which only differ from one another by the 
Stamens of the latter being permanently syngenesious. It 
was first flowered at Kew in 1884, the plant being pre- 
Sented by Messrs. Veitch, and gathered by Kalbreyer 
whilst collecting for them in New Granada. Our drawing 
was made from a plant that flowered at Kew this summer. 
It has also been collected by Lehmann at a height of 
four thousand feet above sea-level on the banks of the Rio 
agua. 
Bisse Acaulescent, densely tufted. Leaves thirty or 
more in a rosette, linear acuminate from an ovate base, 
half a foot long, half an inch broad at the base of the 
blade, dull green, obscurely lepidote, channelled down the 
face. Pedunele three or four inches long, quite hidden by 
the crowded stem-leaves. Spike dense, simple, multifarious; 
bracts large, bright scarlet, the outer ovate-lanceolate, 
Szpremper Isr, 1890. 
