almost shrubby; stems firm, woody, sparingly branched, 1–2 ft. high, from a stout woody stock; bark striate, pubescent to rather copiously patently setulose; leaves membranous, numerous, very shortly petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, the lowest often obtuse, the others usually acute, base rounded or shallow-cordate, margin shortly toothed, 2–3 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. wide, pubescent to strigose (especially on the nerves) on both surfaces and with usually numerous long stipitate glands on both surfaces on the finer veins and distinctly glandular-punctate between the reticulations; petiole setulose, 1 lin. long; stipules setulose, lanceolate, persistent, 1 1/2 lin. long; inflorescence 1-sexual, diœcious; male spikes axillary, solitary, peduncled; peduncles pubescent to densely setulose and glandular, 1–1 1/2 in. long; spikes cylindric, dense-flowered, rather slender, 1–1 1/4 in. long; bracts lanceolate, pubescent, 1/5 in. long, spreading, persistent; buds softly pubescent to setulose; female spikes terminal, solitary, sessile, 1 in. (ultimately 2 3/4 in.) long; bracts 1-flowered, subsessile, leafy, wide ovate-cordate, acute, margin toothed, 2/3– 3/4 in. long, 1–1 1/4 in. wide, teeth short, triangular, pubescent or setulose and densely beset with long stipitate glands outside; sepals 3, acute, pubescent and glandular; ovary distinctly 3-lobed, softly pubescent and glandular; styles 3, united in their lower fourth, 3/4 in. long, markedly laciniate upwards; seeds subglobose. null
