PLATE 114. 
AGAVE SISALANA (p. 49). 
[Plates B, 113, and 115 also.] 
Figure 1. Three flowers from herbarium material (St. Croix, Trelease). Natural size. 
Figure 2. Three fresh flowers, one with the nearer half removed, from a plant cultivated 
at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The short ovary and greatly elongated filaments inserted 
rather above the middle of the (when fresh) urceolately contracted deep tube are shown. 
Natural size. 
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