Often several-stemmed, 1½-4½ m tall. Stems subterete, hard, glabrous, reedlike. Leaves sub-sessile, tapering to a long point, usually along the margins and on both surfaces rough by the presence of numerous rather distant very short, stiff hairs, sometimes, barring the margins, subglabrous, 35-75 by 5-7½ cm. Leaf-sheaths of a firm texture with well-developed, thinner apical auricles ap-pressed against the stem, faintly and closely longitudinally nerved; nerves at the top converging into the leaf-base. Panicle erect, sessile or stalked, 12-35 cm long, 2-3 times branched, rather densely clothed with erecto-patent, short, stiff hairs; branches comparatively thin, widely patent, distinctly sinuous, especially the thinner ones; ultimate branchlets bearing a few distant flowers. Flowers sessile on a thickening of the rachis. Perianth membranous, glabrous, ± 3 mm long. Filaments filiform. Styles erect or erecto-patent. Drupe broadly ovoid-globose, glabrous, dull red, 2-3-seeded.
Jungles, light forest, forest-borders, often on mountain-ridges, 650-1700 m.
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