Leafy stems 3-6 dm. tall; leaves oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate at the tip, rather narrowly cuneate, 20-40 cm. long, 4-8 cm. broad, distinctly petiolate; inflorescence scapose and arising directly from the rhizome, 20-30 cm. long, the lower half sterile and bearing several leafless sheaths 1-3 cm. long, sparsely puber-ulent to glabrate, the flowering portion relatively slender and lax, subspiciform, the flowering branches short and bearing 2-4 rather small yellowish flowers; bracts obovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.0-1.5 cm. long, membranaceous, deciduous; perianth 0.3-0.4 cm. long; calyx urceolate, about the same diameter throughout, 0.15-0.2 cm. long, green, the short lobes somewhat inflexed, accrescent in fruit; capsules broadly ellipsoid, about 0.8 cm. long.
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