branches fairly densely leafy, subsimple, angular or ribbed, 1 1/2–2 lin. thick, conspicuously lenticellate in the lower part, rather densely glandular; leaves subsessile, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded at both ends, 1–1 3/4 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, entire or very slightly dentate towards the apex, very rigidly and thickly coriaceous, more densely glandular above than below; midrib fairly broad and slightly prominent below; lateral nerves 7–11 on each side of the midrib, spreading, forked towards the margin, nearly equally distinct on both surfaces; flowers probably diœcious, neither sex seen; male spikes (according to Krauss) axillary, solitary, sessile, oblong, one-third to half as long as the leaves; bracts broadly triangular, spreading, glabrous, ciliolate; stamens 4, anthers subsessile; infructescences axillary, solitary, 2 in. long; rhachis stout, about 3/4 lin. thick, ribbed when dry, very densely covered with small golden glands; bracts thick and leathery, lanceolate from a rounder base, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, densely covered with small golden coloured glands; fruits globose, 2 3/4–3 lin. in diam., densely covered with warts, the warts covered with scattered glands. null