Plants acaulescent, up to 10 cm tall, about 13 cm diam., not proliferous. Leaves about 120, blue-green, the young erect, tips incurved, the old ascending, spreading, incurved, about 6 cm long, 22 mm broad at the middle, 10 mm thick above the middle; upper surface flat below, convex and turgid near the tip, the pellucid area about 15 mm long, with about 9 dark green lines which appear on the surface of the older leaves as ridges which are 0.5 mm high and 0.3 mm broad, none reaching the tip, smooth, yellow-green, ± shining; lower surface convex, the pellucid area about 12 mm long, with 9 dark green surface lines similar to those on the upper surface, with the two marginal and central lines meeting at the tip; keel 1(-2) centrally positioned in the upper third of the leaf, often with a second keel with 4 mm long teeth; margins acute, with numerous 4 mm long teeth near the apex, becoming progressively shorter below; end-awn 20 mm long, white, toothed. Inflorescence about 33 cm tall; peduncle simple, terete, about 6 mm diam. below, 11 cm long, bracteate; sterile bracts membranous, 5 mm long, deltoid, acute, keeled with fine brown nerves; raceme about 22 cm long, lax, with about 40 flowers and buds, arranged in a triangular pattern around the raceme, 9 flowers open simultaneously; floral bracts membranous, 6 mm long, broadly lanceolate, acute, keeled with broad brown veins, clasping the pedicels, (longer than the pedicels); pedicels 3 mm long, 1 mm diam., green, erect; perianth greenish-white, later becoming pinkish-green, with green keels to the segments, 15 mm long, compressed at base, funnel-shaped, tube more or less 5 mm across, constricted to 4 mm above, curved; segments free to the base, limb 2 lipped; posterior segments erect, slightly recurved, with green veins; stamens 6 of two lengths, 10 and 12 mm long at length exserted; ovary 6 mm long, 2 mm diam., green; style 5 mm long, white, curved, capitate.
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Plant acaulescent, simple, many leaved, 5-6 cm in diam. Leaves more or less erect, the younger incurving in the upper part, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2.5-3 cm long, 8-10 mm broad, about 5 mm thick in the upper part, pale green, pellucid in the upper third, the pellucid area with several lengthwise green lines (about 4-6 longer and 4 shorter) which scarcely reach the apex; face of leaf somewhat convex towards the tip, flattish below; back of leaf rounded and with more numerous lines, 2 or 3 reaching the apex, more or less obliquely keeled in the upper part, occasionally with 2 keels; the upper margins and the keels with white, ciliate teeth to 2 mm in length, minutely serrate on the lower margins; the white, terminal bristle 5-10 mm long, minutely ciliate on the lower part. Peduncle simple, about 2 mm diam., 20 cm or more in length including raceme; sterile bracts numerous, ovate, long acuminate, to 6 mm long; pedicels about 4 mm long, bracts about the same; perianth 14 mm long, tube obclavate, somewhat triangularly rounded, lightly curved, white with green lines, segments obtuse, recurving, white with green lines.
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