Shrub, 2 m. tall; flowering internodes rather slender and somewhat elongate, crisp-pubescent; leaves elliptic or elliptic-ovate, apex bluntly short-acuminate, mucronate, base inequilaterally rounded, cordulate, larger leaves strongly so, equal at the petiole or one side about 2 mm. shorter, mostly 5-6 cm. wide X 10-13 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 4-5 on each side, with cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, scabrous, crisp-hairy on both sides, the nerves more densely so, the hairs on the nerves beneath upcurved, drying papery, trans-lucent; petiole about 10 plus 2 mm. long, crisp-pubescent, vaginate to the middle or above; spikes as yet very young, bristly with the erect bract hairs; peduncle pubescent; ovary or fruit not developed.
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