Stout herbs 1.5-3.0 m. tall; leaves broadly oblong, 30-100 cm. long, 10-30 cm. broad, obtuse or rounded at the base, frequently with a deep bronze cast beneath; inflorescences erect or nodding in fruit, the peduncle slender, 15-30 cm. long, more or less ferrugi-nous-tomentose to glabrate, the rachis tomentose to glabrate, more or less flex-uose; bracts rather distant, oblong-lanceolate, broadest near the base, acuminate, the lowermost expanded in-to a more or less conspicuous leafy blade, the upper 7-15 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad, deep red or orange, fer-ruginous-tomentose to glabrate; peri-anth 5.0-5.5 cm. long, greenish-yellow; fruits broadly trigonal, about 1 cm. long, deep purple.
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