Herbs, epiphytic, suffrutescent or vinelike; stems to 60 cm tall, 6-7 mm in diam., yellowish strigose. Leaves of a pair unequal; larger leaf lanceolate to oblanceolate, 9.2-12.7 cm long and 2.2-3.3 cm wide, long acuminate, cuneate at the base, entire, above green, glabrous or sparsely strigose, the hairs white, 2-3 celled, below green or red concolorous, sparsely strigose, the hairs trans-parent to reddish, 3-8 celled mainly on the veins and along the leaf margin, also few 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs; petioles 2.1-2.3 cm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, 5.8-7.9 cm long and 2.1 cm wide, acuminate, cuneate. Flowers solitary or in small clusters; bracts linear, 5-15 mm long, strigose; pedicels 3.8-4.2 cm long, coarsely yellow sericeous; calyx lobes ovate, 3.1-3.8 cm long, the apex long acuminate, remotely denticulate, green, red or becoming reddish with age, sparsely strigose but more so around the margins; corollas scarlet or bright pink, sometimes with traces of white mottling on the margins of the lobes, much dissected, zygomorphic, the tube ventricose but bent, 6.1-6.8 cm long, ca. 5 mm in diam. above the base, becoming 14 mm at the throat, ex-ternally red pilose; lobed portion of the corolla 4.5-5.0 cm long, the lobes strongly unequal, the posterior lobes connate, 3.0-3.2 cm long, truncate at the apex, the anterior lobe ca. 3.3 cm long, spreading; filaments red, glabrous, the anthers exserted, 3 mm long, 1 mm wide; ovary sericeous, the style glabrous, the stigma bibbed. Fruits not seen.
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