Subscandent shrub, 2-5 m. Branchlets slender, glabrous or sometimes pubescent on one side. Leaves ± dense, oblong or oblong-elliptic, apex shortly subacutely acuminate, base broadly attenuate, glands ± conspicuous, ciliate in the young shoots, glabrous and ± coriaceous at maturity, regularly, minutely subserrulate-crenulate, 2.5-3.5 by 1-1.5(-1.7) cm, 5-plinerved from and a little from above the base, some other less distinct nerves higher up, nerves and midrib ± faintly impressed above, subinconspicuous beneath, reticulation none; petiole initially pubescent, early glabrescent, 3-5 by c. 1 mm. Flowers 1-3 per fascicle in the upper axils. Pedicels robust, laxly hairy at least below the calyx, 1-1.3(-1.5) cm at anthesis. Bracteoles basal. Calyx green, tube subcylindric, base subtruncate, laxly very shortly pubescent below and glabrescent distally, or glabrous, c. 3 by 4 mm, limb widened, suberect, 4-5 mm, 5-lobed halfway, lobes ovate, subacute. Corolla tubular, ± dilated distally, glabrous, rather fleshy, red or orange at the tube, white or cream at the lobes, 2.8-3 cm by c. 5 mm, lobes deltoid, obtuse, 3 mm. Stamens 13-14 and 11-12.5 mm; major stamens: filaments towards apex subdensely long-hairy, 3.5 mm; cells narrow-oblong, apiculate and curved inward at the very base, 11 mm including the hardly divergent, 2 mm long tubules; processes appressedly long-hirsutulous, +-divergent, usually +-half as long, rarely as long as the tubules, sometimes very short and represented by long +-appressed hairs at the lower part of the back of and between the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, c. 5 mm exserted. Fruit subglobose, black, 8-10 mm ø.
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