A nodose shrub with scabrous twigs and leaves; flowering internodes short and comparatively slender, finely hispid and granular; leaves inequilateral, narrowly elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base 2-4 mm. shorter on one side and acute, the longer side rounded, cordulate, 3-4 cm. wide X 12-15 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 5-6 on each side, rather slender but conspicuous beneath, with slender cross-connecting nervules, slightly rugose in age, the nerves above hispidulous, paler and granular-dotted beneath and appressed-pubescent on the nerves, appressed-hispidulous ciliate, drying papery, translucent; petiole scarcely 5 plus 2-4 mm. long, hispid, vaginate at the base; spikes 3 mm. thick X 8-10 cm. long; peduncle scarcely 1 cm. long, subappressed-hispid; bracts rounded-triangular-subpeltate, thinly stiff-ciliate, the anterior setae longer; fruit oblong, laterally-compressed, apex depressed-truncate, granulate or essentially glabrous, stigmas sessile.
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