Shrub up to 5 dm. tall; leaves essentially isomorphic; petioles strigose, 1-2 cm. long; leaf-blades elliptic or oblong, 5-15 cm. long, half to two-thirds as wide, abruptly acuminate, entire, rounded or broadly obtuse at base, 5-to 7-nerved, hirsutulous above, beneath strigose on the principal veins, sparsely pilose on the veinlets, glabrous on the surface; spike terminal, short-peduncled, 3-6 cm. long, densely flowered, secund; hypanthium strigose, about 2.5 mm. long; petals white, about 3 mm. long; capsule about 7 mm. wide.
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