A glabrous shrub, 1-3 m. tall; flowering internodes slender and rather short, pale-granular or glandular-dotted downward; leaves lance-ovate or elliptic, apex attenuately rather long-acuminate, commonly bristle-pointed, base subequilaterally acute, 3-5.5 cm. wide X 8-12 cm. long, pinnately nerved from below the middle, the nerves 3-4 on each side, with cross-connecting-anastomosing nervules, finely granular-or glandular-dotted beneath, drying green above, paler beneath, rather thin, translucent; petiole 10-15 mm. long, vaginate at the base only; spikes 3 mm. thick X 4-7 cm. long, apiculate; peduncle 1-2 cm. long; bracts triangular-or lunulate-subpeltate, margin conspicuously white-fringed; fruit globose or ovoid, laterally somewhat compressed; stigmas 3, sessile.
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