Acaulescent plant. Leaves numerous, forminga rosette, narrowly lanceolate, mostly 1.2-2 m long, nearly straight and erect, apex with a brown, terminal, awl-shaped, spine, 1.5-2 cm long, margins with straight or up-curved prickles 1-1.5 mm long, with broadly lenticular blackish brownbase. Inflorescence to 5 m tall or more, the scape bearing distant deltate bracts, the slightly ascending branches densely-flowered. Flowers deep yellow, on pedicels 2-2.5 cm long; ovary 2-3cm long, nearly equaling the length of the perianth, the whole flower (excluding the stamens) thus 5-6 cm long; filaments 4.5-5 cm long, nearly twice aslong as the tepals. Fruits unknown; after flowering, the panicles produce numerous vegetative bulbils by which the species can be propagated.

General distribution: Endemic to St. Croix,where it now appears to be extinct in the wild. Now cultivated in St. Croix and St. Thomas, but relatively few plants exist. Selected specimens examined: ST. CROIX: Christiansted: Rose et al. 3535 (US); District of Prince: S side of Alexander Hamilton Airport, Proctor et al. 45490(US-2).