Glabrous except for young vegetative parts coarsely golden hairy and the young flowers tomentose but soon glabrescent except for the ovary. Leaves scattered; lamina ovate, 6-16 by 3-8 cm, shortly attenuate at the base to a petiole 4-10 mm long, acute at the apex, dull on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib and the main laterals distinct above and below. Inflorescences many at the nodes, arising from cushion-like swellings, a short 1-6-flowered raceme; axis 1-5 mm long; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, 35-40 mm long, slender, weakly clavate and obtuse at the apex, red or orange; tube in the open flower 25-28 mm long with lobes reflexed 2-3 mm higher, slightly curved. Anther c. 5 mm long, obtuse, transversely septate or not, slightly longer than the free part of the filament. Fig. 22d.
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