[ 109 ] 

 Ay<ivee(1so certain other flbPe plants) or to their product*. 



Bulletin, 

 paf?e 



22,32,41 



REMARKS. 



22,41 



22,32 



22, 32, 41 



22, 32, 41 



22, 32, 42 



See Caraguata acanga. 



1,4,1,4,2 



21, 22, 32 



21, 22, 

 32, 49. 



22, 32, 



See Caraguata guacu. 



Usually identified with Aloe vera L.j however that may be, it is not 

 a Furcraea or Euagave. 



Perhaps a Silllergia or allied Bromeliacea, but at all events neither 

 a Euagave nor a Furcraea. 



Manifestly a ' Nidularium ' from S. America and by the description 

 of the fruit Karatas Plumieri, E. Morren. This is not impossibly 

 the Caraguata de agua of Kew Sel. paners XXXVIII [see Cara- 

 guata(\)-]. 



Rightly identified by Sloane with the common Penguin of the West 

 Indian Islands. There has been hopeless confusion with regard to 

 these SromeliacecB, with the result that this caraguata has been 

 credited with fibre : it produces a fruit, eaten in the Islands and in 

 parts of S. America, but the fibre is reported to be worthless. The 

 Sromelia acanga of Liu tiffins (according to the Index Kewensis) 

 was partly Sromelia Pinguin of the SP. PI. and partly Karatas 

 Plumieri, E. Morren. See Caroata. 



See Cabulla (1). This Furcraea is not naturalized or used so far in 

 India; we have not recognized it even in gardens. As a fibre 

 producer it is believed to have some advantages over the other 

 Furcraeas. (See Mauritius Hemp). The name is probably the 

 Caroata assu of the Tupi dialects in Spanish dress. 



Martius identifies the plant of Marcgraf with F. cubensis, but see 

 Caroata-assu. He considers that this was the original Cwrib name 

 for sundry Agaveae and Bromeliaceae and that Carib war-canoes 

 took the plants and their names to the mainland of S. America. 

 The Furcraeas may have come to the Orinoco delta from the Eastern 

 Antilles, but they were probably brought to the Islands by i;he 

 agency of man from the Peninsula or Isthmus previously. 



Cf. Sois de MecJte. Possibly two names are involved, one referring 

 to a Furcraea, the other to a Sromeliad. 



See Caroa. 



34 j Meaning 'Thistle* or ' Artichoke* and referring to the prickly nature 

 of certain Euagaves ; applied to plants of the Cactus kind also. 



