PLATE 40. 
AGAVE VENTUM-VERSA (p. 29). 
(The “Langue 4 boeuf”’ of St. Vincent.) 
[Plate B also.] 
Figure 1. Several rather poorly pressed flowers showing the fusiform ovary very much 
contracted at top and above the base, very shallow tube, and short filaments. From herbarium 
material (H. H. and G. W. Smith, 1705). Natural size. 
Figure 2. Several leaf-tips, one seen in profile and one from the back, showing the very 
stout involute slit spine hardened into the green tissue of the back of the leaf; and parts of a 
leaf-margin, showing the broad triangular irregular prickles from widened bases or confluent 
and with small intervening cusps. From herbarium material (Sands). Natural size. 
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