A rhizomatous, succulent, shade-loving herb; leaves alternate, few, clustered at the end of a fleshy, fibrous-rooted rhizome 5-10 mm. thick when dry, round-ovate, apex obtuse or obscurely acutish, base deeply cordate with open sinus, up to 11 cm. in diameter, palmately 1 1-nerved, the nerves strongly forked upward, rather sparsely villous above, more densely so along the nerves beneath, drying thin, trans-lucent, finely pellucid-dotted, paler and prominently glandular-dotted beneath; petiole up to 15 cm. long, rather slender, villous near the blade, glabrescent down-ward; spikes solitary, terminal (?) or axillary (?), 2 mm. thick X 6 cm. long, closely flowered; peduncle equilong, thinly villous; bracts round-peltate; ovary subturbinate, apex submammiform, stigma apical, sometimes bifid.
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