A shrub, 2-3 m. tall, glabrous, nodose; flowering internodes rather slender and short, smooth or with round lenticels; leaves ovate or lance-ovate, apex bluntly acuminate, base mostly rounded, acute or obscurely and shallowly cordate, abruptly contracted onto the petiole, 3.5-8 cm. wide X 8-14 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the upper third, the nerves 3-4 on each side in small leaves or 4-5 in larger leaves, with 2 or 3 pairs from near the base and 1 or 2 pairs above, with a few shorter intermediates and cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, drying firm, pale green, translucent; petiole 10-25 mm. long, vaginate at the base or occasionally to about the middle; spikes 2-3 mm. thick X 5-8 cm. long, usually mucronate; peduncle 5-10 mm. long; bracts rhomboid-subpeltate, umbonate, submarginally ciliolate; fruit obpyramidal-trigonous, glabrous, stigmas sessile.
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