Scandent shrub. Branchlets terete, slender, glabrous at tips. Leaves lax, ovate, apex acutely subcaudate-acuminate for 1-1.5 cm, base rounded, or rarely subcordate, subcoriaceous, pale brown when dry, dull, glabrous except some sparse glandular points beneath, entire, (7-)8.5-10 by (3-)3.5-4.5 cm, midrib and nerves slightly prominent on both faces, nerves 3 subbasal pairs, the 2 inner ones more distinct, all curved-ascending to the apex, reticulation rather lax and but slightly raised on both sides; petiole c. 5 by 1 mm. Flowers solitary in upper axils. Pedicels slender below, laxly hairy, with some stalked glands at apex, 1.5-2 cm. Calyx tube turbinate-obconical, ± distinctly 5-ribbed, laxly white-pubescent, 5-6 mm long including the limb, the latter 5-lobed nearly to the base, lobes subpatent, broad-triangular, subacute, 1.5 mm. Corolla cylindrical, 5-angular, rose red, tipped cream when fresh, ± fleshy, all over densely short-hairy outside, glabrous inside, 18-20 mm when fully developed including the short lobes, c. 6 mm wide. Stamens nearly as long as the corolla; filaments glabrous, c. 2 mm; anther-cells 6-7 mm, markedly granular; tubules narrow, 9-10 mm, splitting nearly to the base. Disk glabrous. Style slender, c. 17 mm.
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