A glabrous shrub or small tree, 3-6 m. tall; flowering internodes compara-tively slender and rather short; leaves 5-sided, rounded-subovate, apex abruptly short-acuminate, base shallowly cordate with one side larger, peltate 1.5-3 cm. above the sinus, 11-18 cm. wide X 16-26 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half with 3 or 4 nerves approximated on each side near the petiole attachment and about 3 branches off each side of the mid-rib above, the nerves salient beneath with rather prominent cross-connecting and anastomosing nervules, drying rather firm, subtranslucent; petioles mostly 3-6 cm. long, vaginate-winged to near the blade; spikes up to 8 mm. thick X 23 cm. long when mature; peduncles 1.5-2.5 cm. long; bract s rounded-triangular-subpeltate or subcucullate, ciliate; fruit depressed-obovoid, glabrous or sparsely hairy at the top; stigmas linear, subsessile, or on a short, stout style.
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