Stemless, 6 dm. high. Leaves all alike, many, densely fasciculate, persistent, narrowed between sheath and blade but not actually petiolate; sheaths broadly triangular-ovate, entire, brown at base; blades linear, filiform-acuminate, 6 dm. long, 13 mm. wide, entire except for a few teeth at base, densely white-lepidote beneath, glabrous above at maturity. Scape evident, straight, soon glabrous. Scape-bracts strict, lance-triangular, acuminate, pungent, lepidote, becoming glabrous, the upper ones equaling or slightly shorter than the internodes. Inflo-rescence racemose, cylindric, 2 dm. long, white-floccose. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, equaling or exceeding the pedicels, the lower ones 18 mm. long. Flowers erect, about 55 mm. long. Pedicels slender, erect, 10-15 mm. long. Sepals sublinear, filiform-acuminate, 34 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, often uncinate, ecarinate. Petals red, strongly recurved after anthesis, bearing a large coarsely dentate scale at base. Stamens barely exserted. Ovary 3/4 superior. Ovules long-caudate.
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