; 0 translated by butcher leaves to 15, wide linear, tip rounded with a clear micron, margin with spines to 3 mm long, to 0,3 m long and 50 mm wide, not at all banded; peduncle bracts with the primary bracts moderately shorter than the spikes, entire. inflorescence many flowered, elliptic, tip short acute, totally exceedingly furfuraceous hairy, to 0,2 m long and 0,1 m wide, pendulous, distichous, all the spikes towards the top sessile or very short stipitate in the bottom ones, wide lanceolate, to 60 mm long and 25 mm wide, flowers exceedingly distichous, with to 10-flowered; floral bracts densely imbricate almost incumbent, from ovate acute, pale green wide edges and coloured lavender blue, hairy, equalling the sepals or a little exceeding, entire. flowers sessile, erect; sepals ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, aristate, green, hairy, to 12,5 mm long; petals violet, to 28 mm long, tip mucronate, moderately high ligules and with two longitudinal callouses ascending above the middle. stamens: filament ser; ii; short connate with sepals. pistil: ovary hairy; west indies grenada, on rocks near st; george (introduced by broadway living in kew gardens); - fig; 38.Edited from : Mez 1935. Bromeliaceae (part 1-4) in Engler, A. (ed) Das Pflanzenreich.