Suffrutescent herbs or shrubs, epiphytic or terrestrial; stems to 3 mn long, 3-5 mm or more in diam., densely strigose near the tip. Leaves of a pair unequal, the larger leaf lanceolate to oblanceolate, 8.5-14.3 cm long and 2.5-4.4 cm wide, the apex acuminate, rounded or oblique at the base, serrulate or entire, above green, glabrous, red spotted beneath (often two spots), strigose, hairs trans-parent, 3-9 celled, more numerous on the veins, also 2-3 celled white adpressed hairs; petioles 2-5 mm long; smaller leaves lanceolate, 0.7-2.3 cm long and 2-7 mm wide, acuminate, oblique at the base, green. Flowers solitary or paired; bracts lanceolate, 3-8 mm long, entire, acute, glabrous above but strigose beneath, the pedicels 1.8-4.4 cm long, transparent or reddish hirsute; calyx lobes pectinate, 2.3-3.0 cm long, 8-9 toothed. the teeth 4-8 mm long, green or reddish, reddish hirsute; corollas scarlet, ventricose, 3.8-4.4 cm long, ca. 4 mm in diam. above base, becoming ca. 1.3 cm in diam., contracted at the throat to ca. 8 mm in diam., externally sparsely reddish pilose, internally glabrous, the lobes slightly unequal, the posterior pair partly connate, the remainder spreading and 5-6 mm long; filaments papillose below, the anthers included; ovary sericeous, the style glandular above, the stigma bilobed. Fruits about 1.0 cm in diam.
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