plant stemless. leaves in a broadly funnelform rosette, to 47 cm, long, bearing a narrow median channel along the top of the sheath and the base of the blade, covered beneath with fine appressed white scales; sheath large, narrowly elliptic, blades strap¬-shaped, rounded and apiculate, slightly contracted toward base, to 55 mm; wide, less densely lepidote and darker above, subdensely serrulate. inflorescence: peduncle 8 cm; long but complete¬ly hidden; peduncle bracts imbricate, broadly elliptic, serrulate, very pale green, the upper ones much enlarged and forming a tight cylindric involucre around the flowers; fertile part central, nested in the center of the rosette, simple, ellipsoid, 8 cm; long including the petals, 3 cm; in diameter, many-flowered; axis 35 mm; long, finely white-lanate; floral bracts narrow, equaling the sepals, subentire. flowers sessile; sepals oblong, subsymmetrical, 32 mm, long including the 6 mm; terminal mucro, 6 mm; wide, short-connate, white-flocculose; petals 40 mm; long, the blades acute, spread¬ing, 15 mm; long, blue. stamens included; pollen-grains ellipsoid, biporate. pistil: ovary thick-ovoid; epigynous tube small, narrowly funnel form; placentae median, large; ovules obtuse;.Edited from : Bromel. Soc. Bull. 12: 104,. (1962)