Stems spreading to 1.5 m. long; branchlets scurfy-tomentellous with small much-branched red-brown hairs.. Leaves opposite to alternate; petiole 1–3 cm. long; lamina dull mid-green, thinly coriaceous, linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 4–13 cm. long, 0.5–5 cm. wide, acute to obtuse at the apex, cuneate at the base, scurfy-pubescent, soon glabrescent, with 8–10 pairs of spreading lateral nerves.. Umbels (or heads) 6–16-flowered; peduncle 5–8 mm. long, scurfy; pedicels 3–5 mm. long, similarly hairy; bract-limb linear to oblong-lanceolate, eventually produced into a slight foliaceous limb, 4–12 mm. long.. Receptacle 1.5–2 mm. long, red-brown scurfy.. Calyx 0.8–1 mm. long, toothed.. Corolla 3.5–4.5 cm. long, orange, becoming redder inside, scurfy puberulous with short much-branched red-brown hairs; apex of buds shortly oblong-ellipsoid, 4 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, angular; basal swelling ellipsoid, 5–6 mm. long, 3–4 mm. in diameter, narrowed for 3–4 mm. above; lobes erect, 7–9 mm. long, the upper expanded part oblanceolate to linear-elliptic, 3–4 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, hardened inside, slightly keeled outside.. Stamens red, inflexed; tooth 0.2 mm. long; anthers 2–3 mm. long.. Style red opposite vents, narrowed to a 2–3 mm. long neck; stigma capitate, 0.8 mm. across.. Berry red, obovoid-ellipsoid, 8–10 mm. long, 6–7 mm. in diameter, scurfy; seed dark yellow.
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