leaves with a long entirc oblong base three to four inches broad, the closely minutely serrated lamina not seen complete. inflorescence: peduncle sheathed by many large imbricated lanceolate bract-leaves. flowers in a very dense, oblong once-branched panicle four to six inches long, with crowded more or less ascending distichous spicate branches one inch to one inch and a half long, half inch broad, which are subtended by lanceolate branch-bracts nearly as long as the branches, with close minute horny serrations like the leaves; flowers* crowded, erecto-patent, each enclosed in two coriaceous navicular flower-bracts, the outer one under half an inch long, with a conspicuous pungent macro, the inner one smaller, its back entirely adnate to the rachis; calyx including the ovary one-half to five-eighths of an inch long; sepals lanceolate, distinctly macronate, twice as long as the ovary; petals not seen.Edited from : Baker 1879a. (protologue) Aechmea maria-reginae .