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Transcription
long, narrowly lanceolate
ribbed like a young palm
Scales 1-3 ft long, brown-
ish purple, with 5-6
short sheathing, brown-
stramineous, acute, ribbed
scales. Flowers
usually in spikes, or
cusinally in few-
rayed panicles, resu-
pinate. Floral bracts,