Scandent shrub, up to 4 m. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves scattered, oblong-lanceolate, apex shortly (c. 2 cm) acutely subcaudate-acuminate, base acute, basal glands not too distinct, coriaceous, glabrous, +-densely glandular-punctate beneath, entire, edge slightly revolute, 11-22 by (2.7-)3.5-6 cm, 7-9-plinerved, nerves and midrib slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation dense, finely raised beneath; petiole 7-10 by c. 2 mm. Racemes or clusters abbreviate, few-flowered; rachis up to 7 mm. Pedicels stoutish, (sub)glabrous, 7-9 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube semiglobose, laxly hairy, 3 mm, limb +-spreading, 2 mm, 5-dented almost to the base. Corolla tubular, red (type) or white, densely sub-appressedly yellowish puberulous (or very short-pubescent) outside, +-fleshy, 2-2.3 cm by c. 4 mm, lobes 2.5 mm. Stamens 10-11 and 8-8.5 mm; major stamens', filaments 3-4 mm, short-pubescent distally as is the connective; cells narrow-oblong, base obtuse, 9-10 mm including the +-divergent tubules (2 mm); processes densely hairy, ± divergent, as long as or +-exceeding the tubules. Disk laxly to subdensely pubescent. Style rather slender, glabrous, c. 2 cm.
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