leaves 1/3–5 in. long, 1/3–1 line broad, laterally flattened, linear, obtuse or acute, spirally twisted or straight, glabrous, with sheaths 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, concolorous or pale; peduncular sheath 1/2–2 in. long, leafless and mucronate, or with a leafy point 1/4– 1/2 in. long; peduncle 1 1/2–12 in. long, very slender, 1/5– 1/4 line thick, terete or subcompressed, striate, glabrous; spike 2 lin. long, lanceolate, acute when in flower, 1–3-flowered; bracts few, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, 3/4–1 line broad, oblong or elliptic-oblong, boat-shaped or convolute, apparently acute, but obtuse when flattened out, entire, not ciliate, 3-nerved, membranous, very pale brownish or straw-coloured; lateral sepals about 2 lin. long, rather more than 1/3 line broad, straight, lanceolate, acute, keeled; keel neither winged nor ciliate, membranous, straw-coloured; corolla yellow, only seen in very young bud; capsule 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, 2/3 line diam., oblong, obtuse, apiculate, trigonous (or triangular?) in cross section. null
