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Shrub or subshrub, occasionally with scrambling branches, 2-3 m tall. Stem hirsute to glabrescent. Prophyll to 16 mm long, glabrous except pubescent on midvein. Petiole 0.5-1 cm long, hirsute; blade scabrous often on both surfaces, glandular-dotted, often greyish below, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 11-23 x 4-11 cm, apex acuminate, base unequally attached to petiole difference 0.2-0.6 cm, obliquely rounded or cuneate with one side occasionally cordulate, lepidote-scabrid above, veins hirsute on both surfaces; pinnately veined, secondary veins 5-6 per side, originating from lower 1/2 of primary vein, tertiary veins transversely reticulate. Inflorescence erect; peduncle to 1 cm long, pubescent; spike 8-14 cm long, white, cream or pale green, not apiculate; floral bracts densely marginally fringed, 0.4-0.5 mm in diam., filaments with broadened connective and anthers dehiscing transversely (horizontally) apically. Infructescence grey or grey green; fruits oblongoid to rounded-trigonous, hirsute, stigmas 3, sessile.
lower half, the nerves 5-6 on each side or 7 in some large leaves, with cross-connecting nervules, sometimes rugescent in age, lepi-dote-scabrous, more or less hirtellous or his-pid along the nerves above, the nerves beneath hispid-hirsute, commonly glandular-dotted, drying papery, translucent; petiole 5-10 plus 2-5 mm. long, hirtellous or hispid, vaginate at the base; spikes 3 mm. thick X 8-14 cm. long, mucronate; peduncle rather thick, scarcely 1 cm. long, hirtellous or hispid; bracts triangular-subpeltate, margin-ally fringed; fruit rather small, oblong-subpyramidal-trigonous, laterally compressed, papillate-puberulent at the truncate or de-pressed apex; stigmas small, sessile.
A shrub, up to 5-8 m. or more tall, rather nodose; flowering internodes mod-erately slender and rather short, hispid, sometimes glabrescent downward, hairs rigid, commonly more dense about the nodes, erect to reflexed, often of varying lengths; leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 4-11 cm. wide X 11-20 or 25 cm. long, mostly 6-8 X 11-15 cm., apex acuminate, base obliquely inequilateral, one side 2-5 mm. shorter, mostly acute, the longer side usually rounded and obtuse, or in large leaves sometimes cordulate, pinnately nerved from the
A pepper shrub.
