Shrub, 2-5 m. tall, nodose; flowering internodes rather short and thick, puberu-lent; leaves oblong-elliptic, apex rather abruptly acuminate, base rounded, obtuse or cordulate, one side about 5 mm. shorter, 10-11.5 cm. wide X25-31 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the upper fourth, the nerves 6 or 7 on each side, with intermediates and cross-connecting and anastomosing nervules, the nerves on both sides puberulent but more conspicuously so above, drying green, paler and pale glandular-dotted beneath, translucent; petiole stout, 10-15 plus 5 mm. long, puberulent, vaginate to near the blade; spikes 3 mm. thick X 10 cm. long; peduncle 15 mm. long, rather stout, puberulent; bracts rounded-triangular-subpeltate, con-spicuously yellow-fringed; ovary glabrous; stigmas filiform, sessile.
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