PLATE 8. 
AGAVE PETIOLATA (p. 20). 
Figure 1. Fragment of an abnormal inflorescence, and a detached flower. 
Figure 2. Two leaf-tips showing the slender somewhat wavy spine grooved below the 
middle and roughened at base; and two leaf-margins at about the middle showing the long 
triangular prickles from large half-round hard bases. 
Both figures are from herbarium material (Curacao, Boldi ngh), and of natural size. 
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