Werauhia sintenisii (Baker) J. R. Grant

Thecophyllum sintenisii (Baker) Mez, Bull Herb. Boiss. II. 3: 131. 1903.
Carafuala SinUnesii Baker, Handb. Bromel. 145. 1889. (iuimania SinleniUi Mez, in DC. Monog. Phan. 9: 920. 1896.
Stemless, 3-6 dm. high, often purplish in drying; leaves many in a dense crateriforni rosette, suberect or the innermost erect, 25-45 cm. long, chartaceous; sheaths subclliptic, densely and very minutely brown-punctulate-lepidote; blades ligulate, acute or obtuse, apiculate, 25-35 mm. wide, flat, glabrous above, very obscurely punctulate-lepidote beneath, often bright-red toward the apex at anthesis; scape erect or ascending, 4 mm. in diameter, shorter than or rarely exceeding the leaves, glabrous ; scape-bracts strict, exceeding the internodes, subfoliaceous, deep-red; inflorescence exceeding the leaves, few-fiowered, 1-2 dm. long, lax at the base, dense toward the apex; axis glabrous; primary bracts suberect, elliptic, acute or acuminate, exceeding the axillary flowers, deep-red; branches almost wholly aborted; floral bracts very broadly ovate or obovate, obtuse, 8-18 mm. long, up to 15 mm. wide, enfolding the bases of the flowers, distinctly shorter than the sepals; flowers 2 in each axil; pedicels stout, obconic to subcylindric, 3-7 mm. long; sepals narrowly elliptic or obovate, obtuse, 15-27 mm. long, coriaceous, rigid, narrowly scarious-margined, glabrous; petals ligulate, obtuse, 3 cm. long, light-yellow; stamens included; capsule subcylindric, acute, 3 cm. long.
Type locality: Porto Rico.
Distribution; Cuba, Jamaica, and Porto Rico.