Shrub (?), nodose, nearly glabrous; flowering internodes slender and short, granular, sparsely pubescent when young; leaves elliptic or lance-elliptic, the mid-rib nearer one side, apex attenuately acuminate, base strongly inequilateral, one side 2-3 mm. shorter, acute, the longer side rounded, obtuse, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 4-5 on each side, approximated downward, with cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, 4-5 cm. wide X 14-16 cm. long, glabrous and somewhat scabrid above, very obscurely appressed-pubescent beneath, at least along the nerves, drying thin, green, translucent; petiole about 5 plus 2-3 mm. long, granular, glabrous, vaginate at the base; spikes as yet young, 2 mm. thick X 6 cm. long; peduncle scarcely 5 mm. long, stout, glabrous; bracts triangular-subpeltate, glabrous or with a few, short, ventral hairs; ovary and fruit not matured.
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