; 0 lower leaves absent in type; peduncle bracts dense, with narrow sheaths, the blades subulate, divaricate (divergent), filiform at the apex; primary bracts at base ovate-lanceolate, barely striate, subulate-acuminate, 1–1.5 polliculate( inch?), erect, rigid, lepido-canescent abaxially. inflorescence: spikes 1–2 polliculate (inch ?), complanate, 6 lin; (x 2 mm?) long, short stipitate, attenuately acute, distichously 12–15-flowered; floral bracts complicated, semipolliculate (?), imbricate, acuminate, silvery lepidote; perianth externally tri-angular, rigid, glabrous. flowers: sepals scarcely shorter than the floral bracts, adaxial ones carinate and connate, the other one convex; corolla thin, tube following the bract, with 3 oblong-lanceolate lobes, less exceeding the floral bracts than in most species.Translated by E.J.Gouda from: Bentham 1846. (protologue) The botany of the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836-42 .