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Information Stemless, moderately robust, with stout roots. Leaves numerous, 3–4 in. long, 2–3 lin. broad, flat gradually tapering from the base to a very acute point, many-nerved, with the tessellate cross-veins very distinct in the basal part in the dried state, woolly in the sheathing part, otherwise glabrous. Peduncle solitary, twice as long as the leaves, 6-ribbed, glabrous; sheath 3 1/2 in. long, shortly oblique at the acute apex, glabrous. Heads 4 1/2 lin. in diam., hemispherical, unisexual in the 6 examples seen. Involucral-bracts about 2 lin. long, 1 lin. broad, obovate, acute, whitish, glabrous. Flowering-bracts 1 3/4–2 lin. long, 2/3– 3/4 lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, acute, concave, much incurved at the apex, very light straw-colour or faintly greenish-white, bearded with white hairs on the apical part. Receptacle pilose. Female flowers not seen. Male flowers pedicellate. Sepals 3, nearly equal, more or less connate at the base, 1–1 1/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/2 lin. broad, obovate-oblong, obtuse, concave, entirely fuscous, bearded with white hairs at the apex. Petals separated from the sepals by a stipes of variable length, unequal, the largest 3/4–1 1/4 lin. long, oblong, oblanceolate or linear, and sometimes scarcely broader than the gland, white, densely bearded with white hairs, and with a linear black gland at the middle. Anthers black.

Information leaves 1 1/2–3 in. long, 2–4 lin. broad at the base, whence they gradually taper to a very fine acute point, concave down the face; scapes 1–2 to a plant, 6–10 in. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. thick, striate in the dried state; basal sheath 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. long, 2-lobed at the apex; flower-heads globose, 3–4 lin. in diam., monœcious; involucral bracts about 1 lin. long, 3/4 lin. broad, oblong-obovate, glabrous, whitish or pallid; flowering bracts 3/4–1 lin. long, 1/2 lin. broad, oblong-obovate, subacute, concave, obtusely keeled on the back, pale brownish, with a fuscous or olive-green spot on each side, a little above the middle; apex densely bearded with white hairs; receptacle globose, villous; female flowers shortly pedicellate; sepals 3, free, 1 lin. long, rhomboidal-lanceolate, boat-shaped, acute, acutely keeled (not wing-keeled) on the back, pale olive-green, with the apex and keel whitish; apex ciliate, and more or less bearded with white hairs; petals 3, free, about 1 lin. long, 1/4 lin. broad, cuneate-oblong or cuneate-linear, obtuse, ciliate, and a little hairy on the face at the apex, white, with a linear black gland a little below the apex; ovary trigonous, glabrous; style with 3 filiform branches; male flowers shortly pedicellate; sepals 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, 1/3– 1/2 lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, concave, not at all keeled on the back, obtuse or subacute, densely bearded with white hairs at the apex, whitish, with an olive-green spot on each side, a little below the apex; petals 3, free, unequal, the dorsal or larger one 2/3– 3/4 lin. long, 1/4– 1/2 lin. broad, cuneate-obovate, obtuse or subacute, white, rather thick, ciliate, and bearded with white hairs on the inner face, and with a linear black gland a little above the middle; stamens 6; anthers black. null