An epiphytic shrub; branchlets rather sharply angular, about 1 1/2 lin. in diam., glabrous, covered with a grey smooth bark. Leaves oblong-elliptic, long-acuminate (acumen narrowed to a subobtuse apex, 1–1 1/4 in. long), obtuse or slightly rounded at the base, 6–7 1/2 in. long, 1 3/4–2 1/4 in. broad, entire, coriaceous, dull on both surfaces, with a reddish midrib below (Mildbraed), light green above when dry, pale yellow below; midrib prominent below, sharply keeled in the lower part, about 2/3 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the blade; lateral nerves about 11 on each side of the midrib, spreading from it almost at right angles, prominent below, looped about 1 1/2–2 lin. from the margin; tertiary nerves slightly less prominent than the lateral and following their direction, slightly flexuous; veins scarcely visible above, thick and prominent below; petiole 1/2–1 in. long, rather slender, with a single deep groove on the upper surface, spotted with small black lenticels, glabrous; stipules persistent, intrapetiolar, encircling the branchlets, narrowly lanceolate, acutely long-acuminate, 3/4–1 in. long, membranous, reddish-purple when dry, glabrous. Receptacles axillary, quite sessile, not stipitate, slightly depressed-globose, with a protruding glabrescent ostiole, 1/2 to nearly 3/4 in. in diam., beset with large very prominent tongue-like glabrous warts, strigillose-pubescent. Basal bracts 2, connate at the base, closely adpressed to the receptacle, suborbicular, 1 1/2 lin. broad, membranous, glabrous. Ostiole 2-lipped; orifice about 3/4 lin. wide; bracts not visible from the outside, all descending into the receptacle, linear, membranous, glabrous. Receptacular wall about 1 lin. thick, fleshy. Male flowers subsessile; perianth-segments 3, ovate-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, about 3/4 lin. long; stamen solitary; filament 1/2 lin. long; anther 1/2 lin. long, mucronate. Female flowers pedicellate; pedicel up to 1 lin. long; perianth-segments 3, lanceolate, acute, 3/4 lin. long, membranous, glabrous. Achene smooth; style about 1 1/2 times the length of the achene, slender, with a large papillose stigma. Receptacular scales subulate-lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long, membranous in the upper part.
