A soft shrub, 1 m. or more tall; flowering internodes rather thick and elongated, glabrous, glandular-dotted; leaves broadly ovate, apex abruptly acute or short-acuminate, base truncately shallow-cordate, 14-16 cm. wide X 15-22 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the upper third, the nerves about 8 on each side, gradually approximated downward, submarginally loop-connected, with rather prominent cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, thinly pubescent above, the nerves beneath rather densely villous laterally, ciliate, strongly glandular-dotted on both sides, drying rather thin but firm, translucent; petiole about 6 cm. long, vaginate-winged to the blade, glabrous, glandular-dotted; spikes 5 mm. thick X 15 cm. long or in fruit up to 12 mm. thick X 18 cm. long; peduncle stout, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, puberulent glabrescent, glandular-dotted; bracts triangular-subpeltate, narrowly fringed; fruit angularly oblong, with pointed, substylose apex, stigmas 3.
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