PLATE 14. 
AGAVE KARATTO (p. 23). 
(The “ Karatto’’ of St. Kitts.) 
[Plates B and 15 also.] 
Figure 1. Several leaf-tips showing the very short mucronately recurved spine and its 
heavy oblong deeply slit base usually with involute margins. 
Figure 2. Several portions of the margin of one leaf showing the small triangular prickles 
usually with their bases widened into a narrowly lens-shaped hardened part. 
Both from herbarium material (Shepherd.) Natural size. 
94 
