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CARAGUATA. mosalca. 
Native of New Granada. 
Nat. Ord. BRomELIACEZ.—Tribe TILLANDSIER. 
Genus Caraguata, Lindl, ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 668, ined.) 
Caracuata (Massangea) musaica; acaulis, foliis 12-20 loratis integris cuspidatis 
utrinque fasciis copiosis vermiformibus transversalibus preditis, facie pallide 
viridibus fasciis saturate viridibus, dorso purpureo-viridibus fasciis purpuras- 
centibus, pedunculo splendide rubro bracteis multis parvis deltoideis scariosis 
concoloribus predito, floribus in capitulum globosum aggregatis, bracteis 
magnis deltoideis splendide rubris, sepalis lanceolatis eartilagineis glabris luteo 
tinctis, corolla albida calyce breviore segmentis oblongis tubo zxquilongis, 
staminibus inclusis ad tubi faucem insertis uniseriatis, ovario ovoideo stylo 
elongato. 
C. musaica, André in Ill. Hort. vol. xxiv. (1877), p. 27, t. 268. 
Massanaea musaica, HE. Morren. in Belg. Hort. vol. xxvii. (1877), p. 199, t. 8, 9 
Tintanpsta musaica, Hort. Linden. ; J. Moore in Florist (1875), p. 15, cum 
icone. 
Varese musaica, Cogn. et Marchand in Dallier Plantes feuill. ornam. vol. ii. 
t. 39. ; 
Bin.erGia musaica, Rege! in Gartenfl. (1874), p. 378, cum icone. 
This fine Bromeliad is now widely spread in cultivation, 
and at once attracts attention by the remarkable marking 
of its leaves. It was sent in 1871 to Linden, by Gustave 
Wallis, from a wood, at an altitude of 3000 feet above 
sea-level, near T'eorama, in the neighbourhood of Ocana, 
in New Granada, and was received in the same year direct 
by Mr. Wm. Bull. It was first exhibited by Mr. Bull in 
flower to the Royal Horticultural Society in April, 1875. 
Professor Morren, who gives a full and excellent account 
of its history and characters in the volume of the Belgique 
Horticole above cited, has founded upon it his genus 
Massangea, which principally differs from Caraguata, as 
represented by the well-known C. ligulata of Lindley, and 
CO. Zahnii, by the corolla being much smaller than the calyx. 
MARCH lst, 1883, 
