A shrub or small tree, commonly 2-3 m. tall; flowering internodes moderately slender, moderately to rather densely villous; leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, apex acuminate, base inequilaterally oblique, one side 3-5 mm. shorter and obtuse, the longer side rounded, cordulate, mostly 5-8 cm. wide X 13-18 cm. long, occasional leaves somewhat larger, scabrous on both sides but more harshly so above, mod-erately appressed-hairy on both sides, becoming somewhat bullulate, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 6 or 7 on each side, drying rather thin, translucent; petiole 5-10 plus 3-5 mm. long, vaginate at the base, moderately to densely villous; spikes 3 mm. thick X 7-9 cm. long; peduncle rather stout, scarcely 5 mm. long, hairy; bracts rounded-triangular-subpeltate, fringed, the hairs com-paratively short, coarse and somewhat rigid; fruit tetragonous, laterally compressed, glabrous or obscurely papillate at the apex, stigmas sessile.
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