Guzmania fawcettii Mez

Guzmania fawcettii Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9 : 95 1. 1896
Flowering plant over 1 m. high; leaves up to 6 dm. long; blades ligulate, acuminate, 5 cm. wide, coriaceous, dark-green when dry, glabrous above, obscurely appressed-lepidote below; scape terete, over 1 cm. in diameter; scape-bracts foliaceous, suberect, densely imbricate; inflorescence laxly bipinnate, subthyrsoid, about 4 dm. long and 2 dm. in diameter; primary bracts reflexed, very ample, the lower exceeding the axillary branches, the upper equaling them ; branches nodding, laxly many-flowered, up to 1 dm. long; floral bracts lanceolate, acute, 25-35 mm. long; flowers spreading; pedicels stout, 5 mm. long; sepals narrowly triangular, acuminate, 32 mm. long, free; capsule subcylindric, shorter than the sepals; coma dark-ferruginous.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution: Jamaica.