Scandent shrub. Branchlets subterete, obtusangular at the tips, glabrous, red brown when dry. Leaves lax, subovate-lanceolate or lanceolate-oblong, shortly (1.5-2 cm) subcaudate-acuminate, acutish, base subtruncate-rounded and with 2 distinct glands, stiff-coriaceous, glabrous above at full age, subappressedly yellowish tomentulose in the lower part of midrib and nerves beneath, intervenium laxly glandular-muriculate or-punctate beneath, entire, (8-)9-20 by (2-)2.5-6 cm, 5-plinerved from and from above the base, with several other, less distinct nerves higher up, midrib above thick-prominent to the base, gradually decreasing upwards, raised for its entire length beneath, nerves ± immersed above, ± prominent beneath, reticulation lax, raised beneath only; petiole glabrous above, tomentulose beneath, (3-)5-7 by 2-3 mm. Racemes axillary, 5-7-flowered, laxly pubescent or glabrous; rachis 2-4 cm by 4 mm. Pedicels 0.8-1.2 cm by 2-3 mm. Bracteoles in lower third. Calyx green, tube broad-cylindric, c. 4 by 5 mm, base truncate, limb erect, 3 mm, lobes deltoid, subacute, c. 1.5 mm. Corolla cylindric, 3.5-4(-4.5) by 0.5-0.6 cm, red, tipped white, fleshy, hirsute-tomentose, lobes erect, c. 4 mm. Stamens 16-17 and 11-12 mm; major stamens: filaments broadly linear, c. 5 mm, ap-pressed-hirsutulous upwards; cells narrow-oblong, base obtuse, 1.5-1.6 cm including the narrow, ± divergent, c. 3 mm long tubules; processes ± connate, appressed-hirsutulous, exceeding the tubules by c. 1 mm. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, exserted for c. 3 mm.
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