Glabrous except for young shoots, inflorescences and flowers ochre to red-brown stellate hairy, eventually glabrescent except for the ovary. Leaves opposite or scattered; lamina narrow ovate to ovate, 8-21 by 3-9 cm, truncate at the base to a petiole 3-6(-10) mm long, acuminate and acute at the apex, somewhat lustrous above, dull below; venation pinnate with the midrib prominent and raised below and the midrib and main laterals distinct and depressed above with the lamina bullate between them. Inflorescencess at the nodes, a (25-)30-60-flowered raceme; axis 15-80 mm long; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, 23-26 mm long, slender, weakly clavate and obtuse at the apex, red or orange, sometimes green above; tube in the open flower 16-19 mm long with the lobes reflexed 2-3 mm higher, curved. Anther c. 1.5 mm long, obtuse, about one third as long as the free part of the filament.
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