Shrub (?); flowering internodes rather slender and short, densely brown-villous, the hairs up to 1 mm. or more long; leaves lance-elliptic-oblong, with the midrib nearer one side, apex very narrowly long-acuminate, base subequally rounded, 5.5-8 cm. wide X 19-24 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 6-7 on each side, with prominent cross-connecting nervules, the upper surface somewhat scabrous, loosely villous, the nerves rather densely so, marginally strongly long-ciliate, more densely dingy-hairy beneath, drying papery, subopaque; petiole scarcely 5 mm. long, densely villous, vaginate at the base; spikes 2 mm. thick X 10 cm. long; peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, villous; bracts subpeltate, densely dingy-hairy; ovary elongated with the rachis, glabrous, stigmas sessile.
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