Large scandent shrub, c. 8 m. Branchlets sub-angular, densely short-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves lax, ovate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, apex acuminate (1 cm), bluntish, base broadly truncate-rounded or mostly subcordate, coriaceous, stiff, initially laxly pubescent, finally glabrous the midrib excepted, laxly and shortly yellowish pubescent beneath, tardily glabrescent on midrib and nerves, moreover laxly glandular-subsetulose or finally-punctate beneath, 6-9 by 3-4 cm, margin regularly subserrate-denticulate by distinct, blackish, callose-thickened, subpersistent, bristle-like, c. 3 mm spaced glands, c. 0.2 mm long, 5-7-plinerved from and from above the base, with another higher pair of curved-ascending nerves, all +-impressed above, +-prominent beneath, reticulation obscure above, faintly raised beneath; petiole densely hairy, 5-7 by 1.5-2 mm. Racemes axillary, 8-12-flowered, densely yellowish hairy to-subtomentose, glabrescent; rachis stout, 2.5 cm. Pedicels 8-10 by 1 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube +-semiglobose, c. 3 mm, limb suberect or +-spreading, 2.5 mm, 5-lobed halfway, lobes broadly ovate-acuminate, apiculate. Corolla cylindric, ± dilated distally, ± fleshy, red, white tipped, 2.8-3 cm by c. 5 mm, lobes 4 mm. Stamens 9-10 and 7.5 mm; major stamens: filaments c. 3 mm, above the base densely set with appressed fulvous substrigose hairs as is the connective; cells narrow-oblong, base subacute, c. 1 mm including the divergent, 2 mm long tubules; proper processes replaced by ferrugineous hairs at the back of the tubules to almost their top. Disk glabrous. Style thick-filiform, glabrous, c. 3.6 cm, much exserted. Fruit subglobose, ± glabrous, c. 8 mm ø.
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