A shrub or small tree, 5 m. tall; stem 8 cm. thick, with clustered basal shoots; flowering internodes moderately stout and elongated, matted-crisp-pubescent; leaves elliptic-subovate, apex shortly subacuminate, base obliquely cordate, the longer lobe surpassing the petiole, 15-20 cm. wide X 16-30 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 6 or 7 on each side, with cross-connecting and anastomosing nervules, hirtellous above, at least along the nerves, pubescent beneath, the nerves densely so, bullate, drying dark, firm, opaque; petiole 4-5 cm. long, vaginate-winged to the middle or above, densely crisp-pubescent; spikes as yet young, 3 mm. thick X 6 cm. long; peduncle 2.5-4 cm. long, pubescent; bracts round-subpeltate, dingy-hairy.
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