A shrub or small tree, up to 3 m. tall, somewhat twiggy, nodose; flowering internodes slender, lepidote-granular, glabrous; leaves narrowly elliptic or lance-elliptic, apex caudately acuminate, base inequilateral, acute or obtuse, one side 1-3 mm. shorter, 2.5-4 cm. wide X 9-15 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 4 or 5 on each side, with inconspicuous cross-connecting nervules, glabrous and smooth above, scabrous and the nerves strigose-hairy beneath, gland-ular-dotted on both sides, drying rather firm, translucent; petiole 5-8 plus 1-3 mm. long, granular, vaginate at the base; spikes 2-3 mm. thick X 8 cm. long, cuspidate; peduncle 1-1.5 cm. long, glabrous; bracts triangular-lunate-subpeltate, rather sparsely short-fringed; ovary compressed-ovoid, papillate about the apex; stigmas sessile.
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