A glabrous shrub (?) or small tree, 2-3 m. tall; flowering internodes moderately short and slender; leaves broadly elliptic, apex abruptly short-acuminate, base rounded, obtuse or abruptly subacute at the petiole, 8-9.5 cm. wide X 14-17 cm. long, rugose, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 5 on each side, prominent beneath, not branched but with slender cross-connect-ing and anastomosing nervules, red-glandular-cm. long, vaginate to the blade; spikes 5-8 mm. thick X 1.5-2.2 cm. long, apiculate; peduncle about 1 cm. long; bracts triangular-lunate, glabrous, pedicel broad, curved; fruit subglobose, stigmas 2, ligulate, recurved, on a rather long, stoutish, subulate style.
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