PLATE 7. 
Agave Coout (p. 19). 
[Plates 5 and 6 also.] 
Figure 1. Two entire flowers and one with the upper part split open, showing the short 
pedicels, oblong ovaries varying considerably in length and somewhat contracted at top and 
slightly stipitate at base, and rather long filaments inserted at the top of the shallow open 
tube. (Zuloaga, material preserved in fluid.) Natural size. 
Figure 2. Two groups, each of three capsules and eight seeds, representing two collections 
which differ greatly in dimensions. (Zuloaga.) Natural size. 
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