tout herbs 1.5-2.5 m. tall, essentially glabrous throughout; leaves oblong-elliptic, 50-75 cm. long, 20-25 cm. broad, abruptly and shortly acuminate, rounded at the base; inflorescences erect, long-pedunculate (20-25 cm. long), deltoid, 20-45 cm. long and broad, the rachis more or less flexuose at maturity, glabrous or with a few inconspicuous ferruginous trichomes, the internodes rather short; bracts almost overlapping at anthesis, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, broadly acute to obtuse, the lowermost somewhat expanded and foliaceous, 10-32 cm. long, ascending at anthesis, red or yellow; perianth about 4.5 cm. long, red or deep yellow, glabrous; fruits subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter.
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