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Robert Streul:
The following is based on N. E. Brown's description. Leaves 5 - 10 to a growth, two ranked, recurved, spreading from their base in a fan-like manner, slightly rough, the inner of adult plants 1 1/2 - 3 feet long, 2/3 - 1 2/3 inches thick from front to back and 2/3 - 1 1/4 inches thick from side to side at the base, the outer gradually shorter, compressed-cylindric, with an acute channel much narrower than the leaf extending from the base to the apex on the face, tapering upwards and at the apex somewhat abruptly contracted into a hard acute whitish point 1/4 - 1/2 inch long, marked with a brown band at its base, somewhat indistinctly marked with dark green and paler green transverse bands, becoming bluish-green with age, longitudinally marked with numerous blackish-green lines, several of them continuous to the apex, others interrupted; margins of the channel acute, green or only whitish along the basal 1 - 6 inches. |
