Shrub. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate to elliptic, apex shortly subacutely acuminate, base +-rounded and sometimes suboblique, coriaceous, glabrous, laxly minutely glandular-punctate beneath, entire, 22-28 by 9-13 cm, 5-7-plinerved from and from up to 5 cm above the base, midrib and nerves +-deeply impressed above, strongly raised beneath, reticulation +-lax, raised on both faces, especially above; petiole c. 10 by 3 mm. Flowers in few-flowered fascicles from old wood, outside rather densely covered with fine hairs. Pedicel stoutish, c. 10 mm. Bracteoles basal, subulate, minute. Calyx tube subcylindric-obconi-cal, base truncate, c. 4 by 3-4 mm, strongly 5-winged, wings still marked in the limb, the latter suberect, c. 2 mm, shortly 5-lobed or-dented (0.5 mm). Corolla tubular, rather thin and apparently red, short-pubescent outside, c. 2.6 cm by 5-6 mm, lobes c. 3 mm. Stamens 11 and 10 mm; major stamens: filaments puberulous dorsally, c. 4 mm; cells plus tubules 7.5 mm, base incurved and with a minute appendix; tubules +-divergent, c. 3 mm; connective obscure, no trace of any hairs. Disk deeply sunken, glabrous. Style very slender, glabrous, c. 2.5 cm.
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