Caraguata
The species of this genus number nearly a score, and are found in the West Indies, Central America, and Colombia. Flowers clustered; sepals erect, imbricated, often shortly connate at the base; petals deeply connate in a tube, the free part spreading; anthers nearly sessile at the apex of the staminal tube; inflorescence dense, terminal. Leaves entire. To the species described on p. 265, Vol. I., the following should now be added: C. Andreana (Andre's). fl. about 2in. long, numerous; calyx and corolla bright yellow; panicle spike-like, rather lax, longer than the leaves; stem and bracts carmine-rose. l. arching, green, 2ft. long, 2in. broad, forming a lax rosette. Andes of Pasto, 1884. (B. M. 7014; R. H. 1884, p. 247, f. 61; 1886, p. 276.) C. angustifolia (narrow-leaved). fl. large, few in a dense spike; calyx whitish, the segments oblong, acute; corolla yellow, the tube cylindrical, 2in. long; bracts red, large, oblong-lanceolate; peduncle short, with a few reduced leaves. l. in a dense rosette, 6in. long, lanceolate, channelled from the ovate base to the attenuated apex. 1884. SYN. Guzmannia Bulliana. C. cardinalis (scarlet). fl. white, sessile in the midst of the bracts; scape 1ft. to 1 1/2ft. high, surmounted by a crown of brilliant scarlet bracts, tipped with green, the innermost ones yellow. l. 1 1/2ft. long, lingulate, recurving. Columbia, 1880. This very handsome decorative plant retains its brilliant colour for a very long time. (R. H. 1883, p. 12.) SYN. C. lingulata cardinalis (I. H. 374).
C. lingulata cardinalis (scarlet). A synonym of C. cardinalis. C. Morreniana (Morren's). fl. yellow, in a large, compact head; bracts bright red; flower-stem 4in. to 6in. long. l. rosulate, 16in. to 20in. long, 2in. broad, with recurved, acuminate tips; outer ones dark green, gradually passing, by being shaded and tinted with violet, into the violaceous floral ones. Rio Cuiaquer, New Grenada, 1887. (R. H. 1887, p. 12.) C. musaica (mosaic). (B. M. 6675.) The correct name, according to Baker's classification, of the plant described by Morren under name of Massangea musaica (which see, on p. 335, Vol. II.).
C. Osyana (Baron Edouard Osy's). fl. axillary, solitary, shorter than the bracts; corolla yellow, twice as long as the calyx, clavate-tubular, sub-arcuate, the tube elongated, the lobes erect; bracts orange-salmon, imbricated, reflexed; spike compact, strobiliform. l. coriaceous, 1 1/2ft. long, lanceolate, somewhat channelled. Stem erect, short, robust. Ecuador, 1885. (B. H. 1885, 16-17.) C. Peacockii (Peacock's). fl. white; stem covered with bright purple bracts, the upper ones rolled round the flowers. l. bronzy purple above, rosy-purple beneath, forming an ample rosette. 1885.
C. sanguinea (blood-coloured).* fl. clustered at the base of the centre of the rosette of leaves; corolla 2 1/2in. to 3in. long, the tube yellowish-white, long, clavate, the three segments white, ovate. November. l. in a dense rosette, lanceolate, acute, falcate, thin, the lower part green, the upper half or two-thirds strongly tinged with bright red on both sides, the outer leaves 1ft. or more in length. New Grenada, 1880. Plant stemless. (B. M. 6765.)