Known from fragments only but obviously 1 m. or 
more high, coarse; leaves about 1 m. long, the blades 
ligulate, acuminate, thickened at apex, 7 cm. wide, cov- 
ered with white appressed scales, laxly serrulate; scape 
stout, densely farinose-lepidote; scape-bracts elliptic, 15 
em. long, the upper densely imbricate, serrulate, sub- 
chartaceous, rose, subulate-indurate at apex; inflores- 
cence bipinnate, cylindric, 26 cm. long, farinose-lepidote, 
A, basal primary bract and branch, natural size. B, apical primary 
bract and branch, natural size. C, sepal, twice natural size. 
the lowest primary bracts like the scape-bracts, exceed- 
ing the branches, the others abruptly reduced and little 
if at all larger than the floral bracts; branches spreading, 
6mm. long, geniculate, laxly few-flowered; floral bracts 
vestigial, narrowly reniform with an acicular apex; flow- 
ers divergent; sepals asymmetric with a large wing, mu- 
cronate, 11 mm. long; petals and stamens unknown; 
ovary slenderly obovoid or ellipsoid, becoming 15 mm. 
long in fruit, epigynous tube broadly funnel-form, 2 mm. 
high, placentae apical. 
CotomspiaA: Comisaria de Putumayo, Rio Caucaya, entre Puerto 
Jaramillo y el Rio Putumayo, alt. 225 m. ‘“‘Epiphytic.’? May 16, 
1942, Richard Evans Schultes 3719 (Tyrer in Herb. Gray). 
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