Stems twining, shortly appressed-pilose. Leaves ovate, 5-8 by 2-4 cm; base rounded, apex acute; appressed-pilose on both sides with short, rigid hairs, more densely beneath than above; midrib and ca 10—11 nerves on either side prominent beneath; minor nerves indistinct beneath; petiole 1-1½ cm, pilose like the stems. Peduncles in the upper leaf-axils, angular, ca 5 cm long, densely appressed-pilose with short, fulvous hairs, as are the branches of it and the pedicels, umbellately cymose, few-to several-flowered. Pedicels up to 5 mm long. Bracts ovate, obtuse, ca 4-5 mm long, densely appressed-pilose. Sepals densely appressed-pilose with fulvous hairs; three outer ones ovate-ellptic, obtuse, ca 6 mm long; two inner ones ovate, rounded, a little shorter. Corolla 5-fid; tube at least 10 mm long, widened above, glabrous; lobes ovate, ca 15 mm long, patent to reflexed; midpetaline bands sericeous. Filaments dilated and densely pilose at the base. Ovary glabrous, 2-celled. Fruit unknown.
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