Well-branched shrub with spreading and pendent branches to 1.5 m. long, glabrous; branchlets slightly 3-angular or flattened, soon terete.. Leaves opposite to alternate or ternate; petiole 3–10 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, usually glaucous but sometimes yellow-green to grey-green, linear-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, usually elongate, occasionally broader and even oblanceolate, often slightly curved, 5–15(–22) cm. long, 0.5–2(–4.5) cm. wide, acute to rounded at the apex, cuneate at the base, obscurely nerved, the middle nerves more ascending.. Umbels (1–)2–3-flowered; peduncle 1–3(–5 including connective between pedicel-sockets) mm. long; pedicel-sockets oblique; bract cupular, 3–5 mm. long.. Receptacle 3–4 mm. long.. Calyx tubular, 4–6 mm. long, ciliate and slightly erose, split by the expanding basal swelling of corolla.. Corolla (3.5–)4.5–5(–5.5) cm. long, white at the base (sometimes with red filament-lines), flushed wine-red above, sometimes greenish white inside, tip sometimes becoming purplish; apical swelling slight, bluntly pointed; basal swelling ellipsoid, 5–8 mm. long, 3.5–4 mm. in diameter; lobes erect, 15–16 mm. long, upper expanded part linear-elliptic to linear-oblanceolate, 10–11 mm. long, 1.5 mm. in diameter, thickened.. Filaments red, involute, stout, flattened; tooth 1 mm. long.. Style dark red, 5-winged especially on the thickened part opposite vents in bud; neck 5–6 mm. long; stigma ellipsoid, 0.8 mm. across.. Berry orange-red to red, obovoid-ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm. long, 0.8–1 cm. in diameter, with ± persistent calyx.
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