Tab. 7359. 

 CAEAGUATA oonipeea. 



Native of Ecuador. 



Nat. Ord. Bbomeliace^;. — Tribe Tillandsie/E. 

 Genus Cakaguata, Lindl; {Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 668.) 



Cabaguata cenifera ;; acaulis, foliis 15-20 dense roaulatis lanceolatia charta- 

 ceis viridibna immaculatis parce lepidotis 2-3-pedaiibus basi dilatatis 

 apice deltoide acuminato, peduncnlo valido crebre foliato foliis longiori, 

 floribus in capitnlum densum simplicem globosum nggregatis, bracteis 

 primaries unifloris ovato-lanceolatis dense imbricatis splendide rubris 

 apice saape lateo maculatis, calycis tnbo brovi lobls oblongis, corollas 

 Iutere tubo subcylindrico calyce longiori lobia oblongis, sfcaminibua louis 

 brevioribus, filamentis brevissimis applanatis, stylo elongato ramis 

 stigmatosis undulatis. 



Caraguata conifera, Andre Enum. Bromel. p. 5 ; Bromel. Andr. p. 47, tab. 15. 

 Baker Handb. Bromel. p. 145. 



The germs Garaguata has entirely the habit of Tilland- 

 sia, from which it differs only by its gamopetalous corolla. 

 At the date of the publication of the third volume of 

 Bentham and Hooker's " Genera Plantarum " (1883) only 

 five species were known, now the number has been raised to 

 about forty, principally by discoveries made by our ex- 

 cellent correspondent, Monsieur Edouard Andre in his 

 explorations of New Grenada and Ecuador. The Royal 

 Gardens are indebted to him for the specimen of the pre- 

 sent plant, from which our drawing has been made. It 

 was discovered in 1882 by Monsieur H. Poortman near 

 Zamora, in Southern Ecuador. It is nearly allied to the 

 old well-known West Indian G. lingulata, on which 

 Lindley founded the genus, but is much larger in all its 

 parts, with persistent bracts of the most brilliant scarlet. 

 It was sent by M. Andre to Kew in August, 1893, and 

 was drawn when in full flower in September. 



Descr. — Acaulescent. Leaves about twenty in a dense 

 rosette, lanceolate, chartaceous, bright green, very slightly 

 lepidote, two or three feet long, two inches broad at the 

 middle, dilated at the base, narrowed to a deltoid acumi- 



Ju.ne 1st, 1894 



