Stems twining, terete, sparsely strigose. Leaves narrowly ovate, 5-10 by 2½-4 cm, rounded at the base, acute or slightly acuminate at the apex, sparsely strigose on both sides; midrib and 5-6 nerves on either side slightly prominent beneath; petiole 1-3½ cm, sparsely strigose. Peduncles axillary, thin, terete, up to ca 20 cm long, ⅔-1 mm diam., sparsely strigose; flowers in a dense, ca 30-flowered capitate cyme. Pedicels 3-4 mm. Outer bracts transverse-elliptic, ca 2½ by 3 cm, hirsute outside, sparsely so inside, innermost bracts obovate-spathulate, ca 5 by 3 mm. Sepals ovate, ca 4 mm long, two outer onesobtuse, sepal 3 rounded, two inner ones retuse at the apex; outer sepals hirsute nearthe apex only, inner ones in the central part only. Corolla infundibuliformcampanulate (PRAIN), 2½ cm long (PRAIN), pink; limb probably subentire, midpetaline bands hirsute, connectingfields and lower portion ofcorolla glabrous. Filaments glabrous. Ovary glabrous, 2-celIed. Fruit unknown.
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