Stems twining, up to 20 m, young parts brown pilose to hirsute, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 4-13 by 2-8 cm, base rounded or slightly cordate, apex obtuse or acutish to very shortly acuminate, more or less densely and loosely appressed-pilose to strigillose on both sides or upper surface more sparsely strigillose, the indumentum more or less shining, surface of older leaves more or less rough; midrib and 9-11 nerves on either side prominent beneath, nerves parallel, straight at first, curved near the margin; petiole 1½-5½ cm, hairy like the stem. Peduncles 21½-7 1 cm, hirsute; flowers at the end in a dense, capitate or umbellform cyme with hairy branches. Pedicels 2-3 mm long, hairy. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, caducous. Two outer sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 10-12 mm long, hirsute outside, glabrous or nearly so inside; three inner sepals shorter, lanceolate, gradually attenuate towards the apex, respectively 8-10, 6½-8 and 51½-7 mm long, hirsute outside but with glabrous margins, glabrous inside. Corolla funnel-shaped, 2-3 cm long, white with reddish purple bands; inside of throat and tube violet; limb almost entire; midpetaline bands with long, patent hairs, forming a kind of pencil in bud; rest of corolla glabrous. Filaments thickened and glabrous at the base. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled. Fruit ellpsoid, 16 by 12 mm, reddish purple, at base with the irregularly spreading and reflexed sepals.
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