Epiphytic subshrubs; stem erect or ascending, to 40 cm or more long, near the apex sericeous, below glabrescent. Leaves strongly unequal in a pair, the larger leaf narrowly lanceolate, falcate, 21-28 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, membranous, the apex long attenuate, the base acute, oblique, the margin entire, above dark green, glabrous, below lighter green, but reddish at the apex, strigillose along the veins; petiole short; smaller leaf minute, caducous. Inflorescences axillary, of 1-3 flowers in a reduced cymne; peduncles lacking; bracts ovate, ca. 7 mm long, green and reddish; pedicel 5-9 mm long, green, sericeous. Flowers showy; calyx lobes nearly equal, distinct nearly to the base, lanceolate, 2.5-4.0 cm long, long acuminate, laciniate, reddish, sericeous; corolla orange with purple longi-tudinal stripes, erect in the calyx, the tube curved, ca. 7 cm long with a short spur, outside long pilose mixed with shorter hairs, the inside glabrous, galea ca. 1.2 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, apiculate, the lateral lobes triangular, ca. 5 mm long and wide, the lower lobe linear, to 2 cm long; stamens reaching almost to the limit of the galea, the filaments slender, curved, ca. 6.5 cm long, adnate to the base of the corolla for ca. 7 mm, glandular, the anthers coherent in 2 pairs by their apices; disc reduced to a white bilobed dorsal gland; ovary sericeous, the style ca. 6.5 cm long, the stigma bibbed. Berry subglobose, ca. 1.7 cm in diam., white; seeds fusiform, ca. 1 mm long, striate, light brown.
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