A shrub, 1.5-2 m. tall, twigs somewhat zig-zag, granular-papillate, moderately slender; leaves bullate and dark green when growing, rather narrowly ovate, apex long-acuminate, base deeply cordate, sinus open, obtuse, with parallel margins, 8-9 cm. wide X 15 cm. long, palmately 5-nerved, the innermost laterals not continuing to the apex, the midrib strongly branched upward, the nerves and cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules prominent beneath, the innermost pair of laterals entirely free from the midrib, with scattered, soft, white hairs above, paler and with the nerves granulate-papillate or subhirtellous beneath, ciliate, the hairs restricted to a single marginal row, pale-yellow-glandular-dotted beneath, drying thin, trans-lucent; petiole 3-4 cm. long, vaginate to about the middle, scarcely winged, granulate-subhirtellous. No inflorescence present.
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