A small, glabrous shrub, 1-2 m. tall; upper internodes rather short and slender; leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, base rounded, abruptly short-acute at the petiole, 6-7.5 cm. wide X 14-16 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 4 on each side or with a very slender fifth nerve at the base in large leaves, strongly red-glandular-dotted, especially beneath, green above, pale beneath, drying firm, translucent; petiole about 1.5 cm. long, vaginate to the blade; spikes, as represented, 5 mm. thick X 1 cm. long; peduncle 1 cm. long; bracts triangular-subpeltate, glabrous, the pedicel broad, concave, papillate; ovary globose (?), stigmas 2, on an elongated style.
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