PLATE 63. 
AGAVE LONGIPES (p. 36). 
(The Blue Mountain “Coratoe’’ of Jamaica.) 
Figure 1. A cluster of buds and flowers showing the long pedicels, rather deep tube, and 
elongated filaments. From herbarium material (Mazon, 1624). Natural size. 
Figure 2. Four leaf-tips showing the range of spine form from slenderly conical and nar- 
rowly grooved to broad-based and very openly and shallowly grooved; and a leaf-margin from 
about the middle showing the slender curved prickles, surmounting very low marginal eleva- 
tions. From fresh material (Harris). Natural size. 
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