PLATE 4. 
AGAVE VICINA (p. 19). 
(The ‘‘Koeki spanjool’’ of Aruba.) 
[Plate 10 also. ] 
Figure 1. A plant with the lower flower buds nearly ready to open. 
Figure 2. The lower part of the same plant less reduced; showing the broad triangular 
bracts rather crowded near the base, few rather ascending branches and the dried margins of 
the short broad leaves. 
Both photographed by Dr. I. Boldingh. 
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