Forming large clumps, with longer branches pendent, glabrous; branchlets slightly compressed to angled, soon terete, moderately lenticellate.. Leaves mostly alternate; petiole 3–15 mm. long; lamina slightly fleshy, dull green, ovate-elliptic, 5–10 cm. long, 2.5–7 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex, cuneate and attenuate at the base, with 4–5 pairs of lateral nerves, the second–third strongly ascending.. Umbels sessile, with 2–3 flowers in sockets; bract cupular, 3–4 mm. long, slightly lacerate, ciliolate.. Receptacle 2–3 mm. long.. Calyx tubular, 7–8 mm. long, slightly toothed, ciliate, circumscissile near the base, the freed upper part persistent around the corolla-tube.. Corolla 4–5 cm. long, 3–4 mm. in diameter, red, yellow on lobes around vents, tip darker red, almost cylindrical in bud, only slightly swollen at the base; lobes 12 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate in the upper two-thirds.. Filaments dark red, inflexed to shortly coiled, paler, hardened and thickened in the upper 1.5–2 mm.; tooth 0.7–1 mm. long; anthers 4 mm. long.. Style slender, very slightly swollen opposite the filaments, with a neck 4 mm. long; stigma capitate, 0.8–1 mm. across.. Young berries oblong-obovoid, warted.
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