Suffrutescent epiphytic herbs; stems 4 mm in diam., pale brown hirsute. Leaves of a pair subequal, obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, 3.1-6.8 cm long and 1.0-2.8 cm wide, the apex acute, cuneate to rounded at the base, entire, above green, more or less pilose, the hairs transparent, 4-8 celled, green or suffused red beneath, pilose, hairs transparent or reddish, 4-8 celled, also 2-3 celled white hairs and few glandular hairs; petioles 1.0-1.6 cm long. Flowers 1-3 in each axil; bracts linear, 4 mm long, pilose; pedicels 1.0-1.8 cm long, pale brown or red pilose; calyx lobes ovate lanceolate, 1.4 cm long, acuminate, 4-5 toothed, the teeth ca. 2 mm long, green with red streaks, hirsute; corollas scarlet with the lobes edged yellow or with yellow areas running from the sinuses of the anterior lobe to the base of the corolla, strongly zygomorphic, the tube ventricose but bent, 6.5-6.7 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above the base, becoming ca. 15 mm in diam. at the throat, red pilose, the lobed portion of the corolla, 3.2-3.9 cm long, the lobes strongly unequal, the posterior lobes connate, 2.0-2.5 cm long, entire at the apex, the anterior lobe ca. 2.0 cm long, spreading; filaments yellow, minutely pilose, the anthers exserted; ovary pilose, the style reddish, minutely pilose glandular, the stigma bilobed. Fruits not seen. Chromosomes 2n= 18 (Lee, 1966a).
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