PLATE 99. 
AGAVE BRITTONIANA BRACHYPUS (p. 45). 
[Plate B also.] - 
Figure 1. Two leaf-tips, the end of a panicle-branch, two isolated capsules, one with the 
nearer half removed, a section of a capsule, and eight representative seeds; showing the slender 
round-grooved spine with the margins prickly and involute below, as in A. vivipara, heavy-based 
triangular prickles, crowded short pedicels, and oblong-pyriform capsules strongly stipitate at 
base and bearing at top remnants of the short-tubed flowers. From herbarium material (Cuba, 
Britton, Earle, and Wilson, 6183). Natural size. 
AGAVE TUBULATA (p. 45). 
[Plate 100 also. ] 
Figure 2. A leaf-tip and margin; three flowers, one with the tube opened and another 
with the ovary removed at the bottom of the tube; two capsules, one in section; and eight 
seeds; showing the slender round-grooved spine, small curved prickles from low marginal eleva- 
tions, the tops of which are a little hardened, small flowers with bottle-shaped ovaries and very 
narrowly funnel-shaped tube, and nearly round very shortly stipitate capsules. From her- 
barium material (Cuba, Britton, Britton, and Oowell, 9746). Natural size. 
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