leaves about 10 in a rosette, not connivent at the base, linear, a foot long, ¼ in; broad low down, tapering gradually to an acuminate point, moderately firm in texture, green on both surfaces, channelled down the face, the marginal prickles distant and minute. inflorescence: peduncle slender, shorter than the leaves, its bract-leaves lanceolate-acumiuate, all pale, scariose and adpressed; fertile part a raceme with three flowers, the lowest with a long ascending pedicel; mature ovary green, globose, glabrous, ⅓ - ½ in; diam. flowers: sepals lanceolate, glabrous, ½-⅝ in; long. petals twice as long as the sepals.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .