; 0 dilated base of the leaf oblong, brown on both sides, rigid in texture, 8–9 in; 1 long, 3–4 in; 2 broad. leaves: blade horny in texture, green and glabrous on both surfaces, 1 ½ ft; long, 2 in; broad at the base, narrowed gradually from the middle to a deltoid-cuspidate apex, margined with hooked brown horny prickles, the lower 1/6 in; long, the upper growing gradually smaller; inflorescense a panicle, with deltoid nearly sessile branches 3–4 in; long and broad, subtended by large scariose lanceolate bracts which are not at all brightly coloured; branchlets flexuous, the upper simple, the lower forked, angled, flexuose and thinly lepidote, bearing each five or six spaced sessile erecto-patent flowers; floral bracts oblate, orbicnlar, not more than 1/6 in; long, minutely cuspidate. pistil: ovary cylindrical-trigonous, ½ in; long, thinly lepidote. flowers: sepals coriaceous, lanceolate-deltoid, shorter than the ovary, minutely cuspidate; petals with a claw as long as the sepals and an oblong lamina ¼ in; long. stamens and style included.Edited from : Baker 1882. (protologue) On four new Bromeliads and a new Stegolepis from British Guiana .