Lower parts unknown. Inflorescence thinly hairy and a few hairs on the leaves. Stem terete in its distal parts, to 5 mm in diam., unarmed, firm in texture, glabrous except in the leaf-axils. Leaves at the horizon of flowering to 11 by 9 cm (assuredly larger at a lower horizon), very shortly acuminate, 7-nerved with firm margins; the secondary nerves ladder-like; petiole to 5 cm. Male flowering axes solitary from upper leaf-axils or on very short leafless branches, 10-20 cm, carrying 20-30 flowers which are directed slightly forward; axis angled. Bracts ovate, acute, ½ mm long. Pedicel 1-2 mm, with scattered hairs, with a bracteole in its lower part. Funnel-shaped perianthoid torus-tube nearly 1 mm deep; tepals long-deltoid ½ mm long. Stamens inserted just below the perianth lobes; anthers conspicuously exserted, opening upwards. Capsules (teste R. KNUTH) on axes to 60 cm long, in a slightly immature state 40 by 12½-17½ mm.
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