A small, epiphytic plant; stem very short, scarcely 1 cm. long X 3 mm. thick, tumid with thickened leaf scars; leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, apex gradually acute, base rounded, peltate about 5 mm. above the base, 2.5-4 cm. wide X 6-8.5 cm. long, loosely crisp-villous on both sides, the hairs up to 1 mm. long, ciliate, palmately 7-or in large leaves faintly 9-nerved, the innermost pair of lateral nerves coalescing with the midrib within the lowermost 5-10 mm., the lateral nerves simple or in large leaves more or less forked, drying very thin, pellucid, yellow-glandular-dotted; petiole slender, 4-5 cm. or more long, loosely villous, base much enlarged; spikes axillary, scarcely 1 mm. thick, 7-9 cm. or more (?) long, loosely flowered; peduncle filiform, about as long as the spike, loosely villous; rachis densely and prominently hispid; bracts round-peltate; fruit narrowly ellipsoidal, apex slightly oblique, narrowed toward the base to form a short stalk, stigma essentially apical.
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