leaves 2–14 in. long, 1 1/4–4 1/2 lin. broad, laterally flattened, linear, obtuse or acute, glabrous, with concolorous sheaths 3/4–4 1/2 in. long; peduncular sheath 1 1/2–6 1/2 in. long, leafless, obtuse, or with a leafy obtuse point 1/4– 1/2 in. long; peduncle 1/2–2 1/2 ft. long, 1/2–1 1/3 line broad, compressed and acutely two-edged, especially towards the apex, glabrous; spike globose or ovoid, 3–5 lin. in diam.; bracts 2–3 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 lin. broad, elliptic, very obtuse, or the inner ones subacute, entire, not ciliate, pale yellowish-brown, or pale straw-coloured, with a narrowly ovate or lanceolate, acute, green area at the slightly keeled apex; nerves about 7–9, very slender and obscure; lateral sepals 2 1/4–2 1/2 lin. long, 1/2 line broad, subfalcate-lanceolate, acute, with a rather broad, wing-like keel, neither ciliate nor produced at the apex, entirely pale straw-colour; corolla yellow, with a tube 2 1/2 lin. long, and broadly cuneate-obovate, denticulate lobes, about 1 1/2 lin. long, and 3/4–1 line broad; arms of staminodia divided into tufts of fine hairs; anthers oblong, 2/3 line long; capsule 1 1/2 lin. long, trigonous, oblong, obtuse, not apiculate. null