Suffrutescent herbs; stems long villous, the hairs yellowish when dried. Leaves of a pair unequal, the larger leaf lanceolate, 5.0-7.5 cm long and 1.4-2.0 cm wide, widest at the middle, the apex long acuminate, serrulate, adaxially hispid pilose, abaxially long villous and deep purple colored; petioles nearly lacking; smaller leaves Y/5 as long as the larger. Flowers shortly pedicellate, the pedicels villous; calyx lobes linear lanceolate, 9 mm long, long acuminate with a few subulate teeth, villous; corollas scarlet, ventricose, 3.6-4.0 cm long, becoming ca. 8 mm in diam., slightly contracted at the throat, pilose, the lobes slightly unequal, the posterior pair partly connate, erect, obtuse, the remainder spreading and lanceo-late; anthers exserted. Fruits ca. 6 mm in diam., rugose ?, brown ?, globose.
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