; 0 gray-tomentose, the inflorescence sub-glabrous. leaves radical and basal, reduced upward to sheathing bracts, strongly reflexed, 15–25 cm; long, 8 mm; broad at the base, thence tapering gradually and regularly to a long-attenuate, lightly involute summit, the margins incurved; bracts long-sheathing, strongly ribbed, decreasing gradually upward. inflorescence: peduncle about 3 dm; long, terminating in 8 (in my specimen) sessile, loosely capitate spikes about 3 or 4 cm; long and 5–6 mm; broad, the flowers distichous, closely imbricated; bracts 6–10 mm; long, strongly 7–11 costate, mostly obtuse, thick and rigid. flowers: sepals 10–12 mm; long, very closely enrolling the flower; corolla 8 mm; long, the tube very short, the petals ovate, 6 mm; broad, finely flabellately many-nerved; scales wanting. stamens: filament very short and slender; anther oblong, 2 mm; long; stigmas reaching to about the middle of the anthers. pistil: ovary about as long as the anthers or a little longer, ovate; style half as long as the anthers, thick, sharply angled. fruits not seen.Edited from : Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 6: 489.. (1910)