PLATE 47. 
AGAVE SOBOLIFERA (p. 32). 
[Plates B, 44-46, and 48 also.] 
Part of an inflorescence, the nearer part of one flower removed, showing the short pedi- 
cels, cup-shaped tube so shallow that the moderately long filaments appear to be inserted 
well toward its bottom, and the goblet-shaped outline of the flowers. From fresh material 
collected near the Hope Gardens at Kingston, Jamaica. Natural size. 
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