A shrub, 2 m. tall, branches subdichotomously forked; flowering internodes slender, elongating downward, villous, the hairs up to 1 mm. or more long; leaves lance-elliptic, apex sharp-acuminate, base inequilateral, cordulate, one side 2-4 mm. longer and covering the petiole, 3-4.5 cm. wide X 9-12 cm. long, pinnately nerved from the lower half, the nerves 4 or occasionally 5 on each side, with slender cross-connecting nervules, sparsely villous and harshly scabrous above, paler beneath and appressed-villous, especially along the nerves, marginally long-ciliate, pale-gland-ular-dotted beneath, drying thin, translucent; petiole 5-20 plus 2-4 mm. long, villous, vaginate at the base; spikes unknown.
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