Catopsis montana L. B. Smith, Contr Gray Herb. 117: 6. 1937.
Plant 6 dm. high; leaves many in a cyathiform rosette, 40-45 cm. long, covered with a cretaceous powder; sheaths elliptic, about as long as the blades but indistinct, obscurely i)unctulate-lepidote; blades linear-lanceolate, acuminate, up to 33 mm. wide, flat; scape erect, slender, glabrous; scape-bracts erect, the lower ones subfoliaceous, densely imbricate, the upper ones long-acuminate from an ovate base, equaling the internodes; inflorescence laxly paniculate, many-flowered, 25 cm. long; primary bracts like the scape-bracts, much shorter than the sterile l<a.ses of the branches ; lower branches slightly divided, divergent ; upper branches simple, spreading; spikes short-stipitate, 3-13 cm. long, laxly many-flowered; floral bracts broadly ovale, subacute, 3-4 mm. long, much shorter than the sepals, prominently nerved; flowers subspreading, probably perfect; sepals broadly elliptic, strongly asymmetric, 6 mm. long with the tuterul wing extended; petals elliptic, obtuse, 6 mm. long but slightly cxserlcd, flavous; slumcns slightly unequal; style short but distinct.
TvpB locality: Sierra de Viflalcs, Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
Distribution: Wcalcm Cuba.
