A shrub, scarcely 2 m. tall, essentially glabrous; flowering internodes slender and elongating downward, glabrous or very slightly evanescently crisp-pubescent, slightly pubescent at the nodes; leaves elliptic, elliptic-ovate, or lance-ovate, apex gradually sharp-acuminate, base nearly equilateral, rounded, one side commonly about 2 mm. shorter, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves about 4 on each side, submarginally loop-connected, with cross-connecting-anastomrosing nervules, not glandular-dotted, 4-5.5 cm. wide X 10-14 cm. long, glabrous above, the nerves beneath obscurely and minutely appressed-pubescent or glabrescent; petiole scarcely 5 plus 2 mm. long, vaginate at the base; stipules and stipular line slightly pubescent; spikes as yet young, 1.5 mm. thick X 3.5 cm. long; peduncle slender, 1 cm. long, glabrous; bracts rounded-subpeltate, yellow-fringed; ovary and fruit not developed.
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