; 0 minutely scurfy, the younger portions somewhat floccose; 1 stems very stout, about 4 dm; 2 long in my specimens, concealed in the erect, closely sheathing leaves, which are 1–4 dm long, 3–5 cm; 3 broad, lanceolate, the outer successively shorter and broader, the outermost broadly ovate, all very strongly nerved, thick and rigid, pungently spine-pointed, the spines dark-purple, the margins pungently spiny-toothed, the teeth 2–3 mm long, stout, strongly upcurved. inflorescence: spikes 2 dm long, 5 cm broad, very densely-flowered, obtuse; bracts, in flowering stage, nearly 1 cm long, tipped by a stiff, slender point 1 mm; long, many-ribbed, enclosing the base of the flower and the edges nearly meeting, rigid with a rather broad hyaline border. flowers: sepals 1.75 cm long, ovate, short-acuminate, the acute apex slightly recurved-spreading; petals exceeding the sepals by 5–7 mm., purple with darker veins, obovate with rounded summit, concave, semi-rigid. stamens a little shorter than the petals, the filament hyaline-margined, the anther 4 mm long. pistil: ovary 5 mm long, obovoid, truncate, tuberculate; style stoutish, rigid, 1.5 cm; long, inclusive of the branches, which are 3 mm long.Edited from : Rusby 1907. (protologue) An enumeration of the Plants Collected in Bolivia by Miquel Bang. Part 4* - With Descriptions of New Gerera and Species .