PLATE 5. 
AGAVE Cocut (p. 19). 
(The “ Cocui”’ of Venezuela.) 
[Plates 6 and 7 also. ] 
Figure 1. A representative plant showing the large broad plicated leaves, photographed 
near Caracas by Don R. Zuloaga. About one-thirtieth natural size. 
Figure 2. Two leaf-tips showing respectively from front and back the conical spine grooved 
from about the middle and slightly prickly on the inrolled edges toward its base; and two leaf- 
margins at about the middle, showing the slender prickles with heavy triangular bases abruptly 
topping low prominences of the fleshy margin. (Zuloaga.) Natural size, from fresh material. 
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