Suffruticose, 2-3 m. high. Stem flexuous with elongate internodes, brown-pilose. Leaves transversely elliptic, abruptly acute, cordate at base, palminerved, 12-22 cm. long, entire, glabrous, petioles divergent, 6-16 cm. long, brown-pilose, stipules deciduous, lance-oblong or narrowly triangular, setose-acute, 2-3 cm. long, entire, membranaceous. Peduncles axillary, 15-38 cm. long, exceeding the leaves, sulcate, soon glabrous. Cymes bisexual, regularly dichotomous, 12-25 cm. broad, glabrous. Bracts deciduous, suborbicular, entire, the lowest 17 mm. long. Pedicels 7-15 mm. long. Flowers white. Staminate tepals 2, broadly ovate or suborbicular, 8 mm. long, entire. Stamens numerous, anthers obovoid, shorter than the fila-ments, connective scarcely if at all produced. Pistillate bracteoles lacking. Pistil-late tepals 2, like the staminate. Ovary 3-celled, placentae bilamellate, ovuliferous throughout, styles much connate at base, bifid, the stigmatic tissue linear, spiral, continuous. Capsule subglobose, 7 mm. long, wings very unequal, the largest ovate or elliptic, to 14 mm. wide, the others narrowly lunate, seeds stalked, ellipsoid.
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