Glabrous. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic, 5-8 by 2-3.5 cm, attenuate or cuneate at the base to a winged petiole c. 10 mm long, obtuse at the apex, glossy and somewhat glaucous above, dull brownish below; venation regularly pinnate with the midrib and the main laterals distinct above and prominent below. Inflorescencess at the nodes, a raceme of about 4 opposite subcapitate pairs of triads with the central flower sessile and the lateral flowers pedicellate; axis 30-35 mm long; peduncles of the triads c. 2 mm long, secund; pedicels of the lateral flowers c. 1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 6-merous, 22-25 mm long, weakly inflated at the base, weakly clavate and obtuse at the apex, yellow below and red above; petals in the open flower separating to the base or shortly and weakly coherent. Anther c. 3 mm long, acute, slightly longer than the free part of the filament.
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