A brittle, somewhat nodose shrub, 2-3 mn. tall; flowering internodes short and relatively slender, microscopically strigulose especially about the nodes, quickly glabrescent; leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, apex abruptly sharp-acuminate, base subequilateral, obtuse, 4-7 cm. wide X 9-13 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 4-5 on each side, strongly curved and unbranched upward, salient beneath, with conspicuous cross-connecting nervules, finely nervu-lose by transmitted light, glabrous on both sides or microscopically strigulose along the nerves, obscurely glandular-dotted beneath, drying papery, translucent; petiole scarcely 5 mm. long, microscopically strigulose, vaginate at the base only; spikes 2-3 mm. thick X 5-7 cm. long; peduncle 5 mm. long, rather stout, glabrous or microscopically strigulose; bracts triangular-subpeltate, marginally densely yellow-fringed; ovary narrowly ovoid-trigonous, yellow-glandular; stigmas 3, slender, sessile.
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