leaves 30–40 in a rosette, lorate-ensiform, above a foot long; 3 in; broad at the dilated base, 1–1¼ in; at the rniddle, firm in texture, dull green, scarcely lepidote, deeply channelled down the face, thinly white-lepidote on the back, narrowed to deltoid tip with a small pungent brown cusp, the marginal prickles ascending, dark-brown, pungent, the lower 1/8–1/6 in; long. inflorescence: peduncle very stout, finally 4 in; long; fertile part globose in the fruiting stage, 4 in; diam; inner leaves ovate, shorter than the head. flowers: sepals linear-oblong, ¾ in; long. fruits ovoid, ¾ in; diam.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .