Underground parts unknown. Plant glabrous. Stem unarmed in the upper parts, probably throughout, smooth. Bulbils none seen. Leaves at the horizon of flowering opposite, almost coriaceous, elliptic-ovate, to 17 by 10 cm, shortly acuminate, 7-nerved, the outermost nerves weak and sub-marginal; upper surface with the nerves distinct, the secondary tending to break up in the network; petiole short, to 5 cm or ⅓ to ¼ the length of the lamina. Male flowering axes, as far as seen, in fascicles in the leaf-axils, unusually long, to 20 cm, bearing about 80 flowers spaced at rather more than their own diameters apart, conspicuously angled. Buds globose, to ½ mm long. Female flowers unknown. Capsules broad, wings 22 by 22 mm, on a stipe 6-7 mm long.
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