Slender shrub, up to 3 m, with pendent branches. Branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves lax, ovate, shortly (0.5-1 cm) acuminate towards the obtuse apex, base rounded to subcordate, basal glands indistinct, coriaceous, glabrous, laxly glandular-punctate beneath, entire, 7-plinerved from and from somewhat above the base, 5-9 by 3-5.5 cm, midrib and nerves flat above, slightly prominent beneath, reticulation ± dense and minutely raised beneath only; petiole glabrous, 5-8 by 1.5-2.5 mm. Fascicles 3-5-flowered, axillary, glabrous; rachis almost 0. Pedicels c. 15 by 1.5 mm. Bracteoles subbasal. Calyx tube obconical, 4-5 mm, base subtruncate and 2.5 mm, apex c. 5 mm ø, limb spreading, wavy and obscurely obtusely 5-lobed. Corolla tubular, rather fleshy, light red, c. 3 cm by 7 mm, lobes reflexed, c. 5 mm. Stamens 12 and 10 mm; major stamens: filaments subdensely hirsutulous distally, c. 6 mm; cells narrow-oblong, base acute and curved inward, 8 mm including the divergent, c. 2.5 mm long tubules; processes much divergent, slightly shorter than the tubules, free only in their upper part and more laxly hirsutulous there. Disk glabrous or sparsely hairy. Style slender, glabrous, as long as the corolla.
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