plant flowering to 2 metres. leaves thick, coriaceous, linear oblong, up to 1m long, below the middle to 0,15 m wide, tip abrupt long acuminate, recurved, with reddish purple spots. inflorescence very amply paniculate, to 1,5 m long; peduncle bracts sheaths ample, leathery, reddish, ovate acuminate, persistent for a long time; branches recurved, 20–30 cm long, flexuous, reddish, up to 12-flowered; floral bracts ovate, acute, twice as short as the sepals. flowers not at all secund, ad 0,1 m long; sepals lanceolate, 40–50 mm long, acute, reddish, coriaceous; petals to 0,1 m long, with two ligules, yellow, banded. fruits: seeds with brownish coma.Edited from : in Engler Pflanzenr. IV 32: 405. (1935)