; 0 habit of a billbergia. leaves about a dozen in a rosette, lorate, 2 ft; long, 2 ½ in; broad at the middle, erecto-falcate, green on the face mottled with spots of darker green, entirely tinged with dark purple towards the base, whitish on the back, rounded to a cusp at the tip, the marginal prickles minute. flowers in a dense central hearl hidden by the base of the leaves, the reduced inner leaves scarcely changed in colour; sepals lanceolate, brown; corolla-segments ovate, white, protruded ½ in; beyond the tip of the calyx.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .