A glabrous, strongly red-glandular shrub (?); flowering internodes short and slender; leaves lance-elliptic-oblong, apex acuminate, base obliquely acute, one side 5-10 mm. shorter, 3.5-5 cm. wide X 12-15 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 4 or 5 on each side, or with additional lateral nerves to the upper fourth, with few cross-connecting nervules, rather loosely ciliate toward the apex, drying thin, translucent; petiole 5-10 plus 5-10 mm. long, or on lower leaves up to 2 cm., vaginate at the base; spikes as yet young, 2-3 mm. thick X 1.5 cm. long, mucronate, peduncle 5-8 mm. long; bracts triangular-subpeltate, marginally pale-ciliate; ovary ovoid, narrowing into a short, stout style, stigmas 3, small, short.
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