Usually stoloniferous, 4-9 dm. high. Leaves rosulate, sub-erect, 3-9 dm. long; sheaths elliptic, dark castaneous at base, the rest pale green with fine brown stripes, densely and finely lepidote; blades linear, acuminate, 7-12 mm. wide, obscurely lepidote beneath. Scape erect, 3-5 mm. thick. Scape-bracts imbricate, the lower foliaceous, the upper elliptic, acute, gla-brous, bright red. Inflorescence simple, very lax, 7-to 12-flowered. Axis nearly straight, slender. Floral bracts like the upper scape-bracts, usually shorter than the sepals and closely enfolding them. Flowers spreading. Pedicels slender, 5-8 mm. long. Sepals 3-5 cm. long, thin, glabrous, connate into a slender tube for more than half their length, the free seg-ments oblong, obtuse. Petals white when dry. Capsule slen-derly cylindric, equaling the sepals.
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