PLATE 18. 
AGAVE MONTSERRATENSIS (p. 24). 
(The ‘‘ Karaté’’ of Montserrat.) 
[Plates B and 19 also.] 
Figure 1. Several leaf-tips showing the slender rather elongated recurved spine and its 
heavily conical slit base with involute minutely prickly margin. 
Figure 2. Several parts of the leaf-margin, at different heights, showing the very slender 
usually strongly recurved prickles widened at base into small lens-shaped hardened parts of 
the margin. 
Both from herbarium material (Robson.) Natural size. 
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