PLATE 12. 
AGAVE BoOLDINGHIANA (p. 21). 
[Plates 11 and 13 also.] 
Figure 1. A representative plant showing the usual S-curve of the long-necked acuminately 
pointed relatively narrow leaves. Photographed by Dr. I. Boldingh. 
Figure 2. Two leaf-tips, showing the slender curved spine grooved toward the base; and 
two leaf-margins, the upper one, from above the middle, showing rather heavily triangular 
prickles with widened bases raised on very low prominences of the fleshy margin, and the lower 
one, from about the middle, showing much larger prickles with the retrorse marginal prominences 
entirely hardened. From herbarium material of the plant shown in figure 1. (Curagao, 
Boldingh, A 2.) Natural size. 
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