A repent, succulent, epiphytic herb; stem 2 mm. thick, densely red-villous, rooting at the nodes, internodes 2-5 cm. or more long; leaves alternate, deltoid-ovate, apex rounded, base truncate, mostly subpeltate with the petiole attached 1-2 mm. from the margin, palmately 5-nerved, the laterals slender and obscure, glabrescent above, pubescent beneath, at least along the midrib, the margin densely ciliate with a zone of submarginal hairs on the upper surface, 1.5-3 cm. wide X 1.5-3 cm. long, drying rather thick and opaque, densely and conspicuously red-glandular-dotted on both sides, the glands comparatively large; petiole 1.5-4 cm. long, densely red-villous, sparsely red-glandular; spikes leaf-opposed, 2 mm. thick X 7 cm. long, densely flowered; peduncle 2.5 cm. long, densely red-hairy, with scattered red glands, bracteate near the middle; floral bracts round-peltate, con-spicuously and densely red-glandular; ovary ellipsoidal, red-glandular, sharply rostrate, stigma anterior at the base of the beak; fruit not present.
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