PLATE 31. 
AGAVE EGGERSIANA (p. 28). 
(The “Corita’’ of St. Croix.) 
[Plates 32 and 33 also.] 
A hedge row of plants showing the ascending narrow gradually acute leaves, outeurving 
in age, and a flowering specimen showing the slender scape with narrow refracted bracts and 
slender ascending branches with rather densely clustered flowers. Photographed at Bassin 
St. Croix, by the author. About one-fortieth natural size. 
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