Epiphytic shrub, c. 1 m. Branchlets obtusangular at the tips, glabrous. Leaves scattered, elliptic-or lanceolate-oblong, apex shortly (1-1.5 cm) acuminate, blunt, base broadly attenuate, basal glands indistinct, coriaceous, glabrous, laxly glandular-punctate beneath, entire, edge ± revolute, 9—16(-19) by 3.5-8(-10) cm, 5-7-plinerved from and from above the base, nerves and midrib almost flat above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather dense, ± raised above, more distinctly so beneath; petiole rugose, 8-10 by c. 2 mm. Fascicles from foliate and defoliate axils, glabrous, (3-)4-5-flowered; rachis up to 1 cm. Pedicels 12-15 by c. 1 mm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube cup-shaped or semiglobose, base rounded, c. 3 mm, limb +-spreading, 2-3 mm, 5-lobed obtusely to 2/3, lobes minutely apiculate. Corolla tubular, fleshy, deep red, c. 3 cm by 6-7 mm (3.5-4 cm by 10-12 mm fresh), lobes erect, obtuse, c. 3.5 mm. Stamens 15 and 13 mm; major stamens: filaments +-dilated towards base, subdensely hairy in the upper half, 7-8 mm; cells oblong, base obtuse, (8-)9 mm including the much divergent, 3 mm long tubules; connective subdensely hirsute below, less so and more patently hairy at the processes, the latter as long as the tubules, free and much divergent in their upper part. Disk glabrous. Style rather slender, glabrous, +-exserted.
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