A glabrous, rather succulent, rhizomatous herb, on rocks and trees; stem 4-8 mm. thick when dry, rooting at the nodes, internodes 1-2 cm. long; leaves alternate, elliptic, lance-elliptic, or suboblanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate-decurrent, 4-10 cm. wide X 15-25 cm. long, obscurely pinnately nerved, the nerves 6-7 on each side of the stout midrib which continues to the very apex, drying rather glossy, coriaceous, opaque, narrowly revolute; petiole stout, up to 10 cm. long, channelled and winged upward by the decurrent blade; spikes 1-1.5 mm. thick X 6-12 cm. long, densely flowered, loosely paniculate on long, stout, axillary or terminal stalks, the entire inflorescence up to 30 cm. or more long; peduncles 1-5 cm. long; rachis with anastomosing ridges; bracts round-peltate; fruit scarcely 1 mm. long, ellip-soidal, rostrate, stigma anterior at the base of the curved beak.
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