Epiphytic herbs or subshrubs; stems erect, ascending or spreading, to 1.3 m long, 0.9-1.3 cm in diam., green, hirsute with reddish hairs. Leaves unequal in a pair; larger leaf oblanceolate, 15-18 cm long, 6.0-7.5 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base oblique, obscurely serrate dentate, above bluish green and pilose with reddish hairs, below light green, pilose; petiole 0.7-1.0 cm long, red hirsute; smaller leaf, 2.0-4.5 cm long, 0.8-2.3 cm wide. Inflorescences axillary reduced cymes, 4-8 flowers, the peduncle to 1 mm long; bracts lanceolate, 1.3-2.3 cm long, 0.3-0.5 cm wide, entire; pedicels 1.8-3.2 cm long, green, hirsute with reddish hairs. Flowers with the calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3 cm long, the apex acuminate subulate, sparsely long toothed, green with glandular reddish hairs; corolla yellow with red stripes, the tube spurred at the base, ca. 3.6 cm long, outside puberulous toward the base, pilose above, the inside glabrous, the lobes of the limb rounded acute, ca. 3 mm long; stamens included, the fila-ments 3.1 cm long, adnate to the corolla tube base for ca. 1 mm, sericeous near the base, glabrous above; disc reduced to a bibbed posterior white glabrous gland; ovary ridged longitudinally, glabrous but sericeous along the ridges, the style 3 cm long, glabrous, the stigma stomatomorphic. Berry oblong, acute, yellow but red spotted, sparsely sericeous; seeds oblong, ca. 1.5 mm long, striate, tawny.
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