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Corolla 3–4.5 cm long, pink below, sometimes with a green or red band at top of tube, whitish over vents, with red tips to lobes; apical swelling of bud slight, 4–5 × 1.5–2 mm, oblong to oblong-fusiform; basal swelling 4–7 × 2–4 mm, with tube narrowly constricted for 3–4 mm above; lobes erect, 8–9 mm long, with upper three-eighths to two-thirds linear-oblanceolate, pointed, slightly keeled and hardened inside.
Leaves alternate to subopposite, rather densely set; petiole 1–2(5) mm long; lamina leathery to rather thick and brittle, dull yellowish-green, 2.5–10(15) × 1–4(4.5) cm, oblong-oblanceolate to oblong-obovate or elliptic, obtuse to shortly rounded at apex, attenuate at base, glabrous or some hairs towards margins and base, 3(5)-nerved from a little above base.
Flowers clustered in axils or at old nodes; pedicels 0–3 mm long; bract 3–4 mm long, cupular with a small triangular limb, ciliolate and sometimes puberulous.
Style green or whitish, slender to slightly winged opposite filaments (then with a slight neck below stigma); stigma 0.7–0.8 mm across, ovoid-conic.
Stamen filaments red to purple, inflexed to involute, slightly tapered, corrugated, last 0.5–0.8 mm paler, smooth, hardened; anthers 2–2.5 mm long.
Shrub extending to 40–100 cm or so; branchlets slightly compressed to 4-angular, then terete, glabrous to red-brown tomentose.
Berry red, 8 × 7 mm, ellipsoid-obovoid, with persistent calyx; seed pink or yellow.
Calyx 3–5 mm long, tubular, shortly to distinctly toothed, ciliolate.
Receptacle 1.5 mm long.
