Small scandent and recumbent shrub. Branchlets ± slender and subterete, red brown, glabrous. Leaves scattered, narrow-oblong, apex shortly gradually acuminate, subacute, base broadly cuneate or ± rounded, basal glands distinct, subcoriaceous, laxly punctate beneath, entire or minutely callose-denticulate, 10-12(-14,-19) by 3-4.5(-7.5) cm, 7-plinerved from and from a little above the base, midrib and nerves plain or +-raised above, more distinctly prominent beneath, reticulation minutely raised on both faces or beneath only; petiole stoutish, 6-8 mm. Fascicles axillary, 5-7-flowered, glabrous. Pedicels thick, 1 cm. Bracteoles 2.5 mm, basal. Calyx tube broadly cylindric, base truncate, c. 5 mm, limb suberect, 3 mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes broad-triangular, bluntish, 1.5-2 mm. Corolla cylindric, c. 2 cm by 5 mm, +-fleshy, red or pink, tips whitish, lobes 2.5 mm. Stamens 9-10 and 8 mm; major stamens', filaments glabrous, fulvous-hirsutulous for upper ⅓ as is the whole connective, c. 3 mm; cells elongate-oblong, 8-9 mm including the ± divergent, 2 mm long tubules, base obtuse; processes thick, obtuse, close together, fixed between and partly behind the tubules, slightly longer. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, c. 2.3 cm, +-exserted. Fruit subglobose, purple, c. 8 mm ø, crowned by the erect calyx lobes, c. 4 mm.
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