leaves lorate from an oblong base 5–6 in; long, 4–4½ in; broad; blade 2 ft; long, 2 in; broad, mode-rately firm in texture, nearly glabrous; teeth close, brown, the lower 1/6 in; long. inflorescence: peduncle stout; upper bract-leaves large, red, scariose; fertile part a lax, twice-branched panicle 2 ft; long; branches 8–5 in; long, only a few of the lowest compound; branches* -bracts small, ovate. flowers: pedicel erecto-patent, ½-¾ in; long, with a minute basal bract; calyx with ovary ¾ in; long; sepals ovate, minutely mucronate, shorter than the ovary. petal-blade narrow, ¾ in; long.Edited from : Baker 1889. (protologue) Handbook of the Bromeliaceae .