Suffrutescent herbs; stems pilose at the tip. Leaves of a pair subequal, the larger blade in a pair obliquely lanceolate, 7.5-10.0 cm long and 2.6-3.2 cm wide, the apex acuminate, rounded at the base, subentire, strigose pubescent above, beneath sometimes reddish, the leaves subsessile. Flowers ?solitary, the pedicels elongated and pendulous, recurved at the tip, longer than the flowers and ?subequal in length to the leaves; pedicels puberulent; calyx lobes linear lanceolate, ca. 16 mm long, long acuminate, subentire, pubescent; corollas red with 2 upper lobes yellow, ventricose, ca. 5.0 cm long, ca. 6 mm in diam. above the base (Morton), becoming ca. 1.5 cm in diam., contracted in the throat to ca. 11 mm in diam., almost glabrous externally, the lobes slightly unequal, the posterior pair connate, erect, rounded, the remainder subequal, spreading and rounded, ca. 1.8 cm wide; filaments longer than the corolla tube; ovary pilose.
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