PLATE 30. 
AGAVE CARIBAEICOLA (p. 27).: 
(The “ Langue a boeuf”’ of Martinique.) 
Figure 1. A leaf-tip showing the back of the narrowly conical spine with its thickened 
base, and the minute prickles; and the end of a branch of an inflorescence with a number of 
rough-dried flowers showing their long pedicels, open rather short tube, and short filaments. 
Photographed, by permission, in the herbarium at Kew. (Martinique, Hahn, 114.) It is the 
type of Agave caribaea, when described in 1888 by Mr. Baker, as to its inflorescence. 
Figure 2. A cluster of pressed flowers, photographed, by permission, in the herbarium of 
the Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum at Vienna. (Martinique, Hahn, 114.) 
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