Compilation
Palisota hirsuta

Young parts shaggy with fulvous or grey hairs. Stems 3–15 ft. long. Upper leaves apparently opposite or whorled at the distant nodes, attaining 15 by 4 in., lanceolate-obovate or oblong-elliptic, shortly acuminate at the tip, long-cuneate at the base, margins persistently and densely hairy, midrib in the mature leaves hairy or glabrous beneath. Panicles often 10 by 2 in., loose, not rarely 2–4 from the uppermost whorl of leaves; bracts 1/4– 1/3 in. long, lanceolate. Peduncles of the cymes, mostly simple, often 1/2–1 in. long, slender, with a number of adjacent knots at the top, which are the scars whence the pedicels have early fallen; pedicels 0– 1/10 in. long. Corolla white. Stamens of the genus. Ovary glabrous. Berry 1/4 in. in diam. or rather more, subglobose or ellipsoid, erect on the arm of the panicle, obtuse, blue, with often 10–16 seeds. Seeds trapezoid, not much flattened, nearly smooth.