PLATE 25. 
AGAVE TRANKEERA (p. 26). 
(The “ Pita de Trankeera”’ of the Leeward Islands.) 
[Plates 26-28 also.] 
A hedgerow of plants of which one is beginning to flower, showing the gradually acute 
plicated leaves and stocky inflorescence, with deltoid close bracts and relatively slender ascend- 
ing branches. Photographed on Cura¢ao for Mr. E. E. Ecker. About one-fortieth natural size. 
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