Shrub or suffrutescent herb, 1-3 m. high; leaves alternate, those of the adjacent nodes very unequal and somewhat dissimilar, crenate-serrate, coriaceous, strongly bullate, smooth or hispid above, densely cano-hirsute beneath, the larger lanceolate, 4-15 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, long-acuminate, the smaller leaves ovate, 1-5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, acute; plants monoecious, the flower-clusters predominantly pistillate; staminate perianth 4-lobed; pistillate perianth about 1 mm. long, sericeo-pubescent at throat, bidentate.
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