PLATE 39. 
AGAVE UNGUICULATA (p. 29). 
The “Langue 4 boeuf’’ of St. Lucia.) 
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[Plate B also. | 
Figure 1. Two flowers showing the rather long pedicel, fusiform ovaries (differing con- 
siderably in length) strongly contracted at top and above the base, deep tube, and moderately 
long filaments. From herbarium material (Moore). Natural size. 
Figure 2. Two leaf-tips showing the short thick unguiculately recurved openly very 
flat-grooved spines, unlike those of most Caribaeae; and several parts of a leaf-margin showing 
the small triangular prickles on very slightly raised hardened prominences. From herbarium 
material (Jfoore). Natural size. 
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