PLATE 42. 
AGAVE ANTILLARUM (p. 31). 
[Plates 41 and 48 also.] 
Figure 1. A leaf-tip showing the slenderly conical somewhat wavy spine narrowly slit at 
the base, and the narrowly triangular rather straight prickles lenticularly hardened into the 
margin. Irom herbarium material (Santo Domingo, Parry, Wright, and Brummel.) Natural 
size. 
Figure 2. Four flowers, of which one is split, one has the tube opened, and one is seen from 
above, showing the fusiform ovary, very shallow tube and rather short filaments. From 
herbarium material (Santo Domingo, Parry, Wright, and Brummel.) Natural size. 
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