Shrub. Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous, tips slender, finely pubescent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, apex caudate-acuminate (e. 1.5 cm), base broadly attenuate, basal glands inconspicuous, coriaceous, glabrous, laxly blackish punctate beneath, entire or practically so, (4-)6-14 by (1.5-)2—5.5 cm, 5-7-plinerved from and from a little above the base, nerves slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, veins laxly reticulate and raised beneath, finer reticulation rather faint; petiole ± flattened, 4-5 by 2 mm. Stipule-like perulae in the upper axils, or slightly supra-axillary, finally caducous. Fascicles axillary, (5-)6-10-flowered. Pedicels very slender, glabrous or with some sparse bristle-like glandular hairs, 10-15 mm. Bracteoles subbasal. Calyx tube cup-shaped or semiglobose, 2 by 2 mm, base rounded, with short, lax, ± crisped or subappressed subglandular setular hairs, limb spreading or reflexed, 1 mm, subacutely 5-dented almost to the base. Corolla tubular, membranous, scarlet to almost carmine, 1.3-1.5 cm by c. 4 mm, outside with lax glandular bluntish yellowish hairs as found on pedicel and calyx, lobes c. 2 mm. Stamens 4.5-5 and 3.5 mm; major stamens: filaments 1.5 mm, laxly hairy upwards; cells narrow-oblong, 3.5-4 mm including the widely divergent, c. 1.8 mm long tubules, membranous, base apiculate; connective laxly hairy at the back of the cells, ± indistinct, evanescent upwards and not continued on the back of the very thin tubules. Disk glabrous. Style filiform, glabrous, c. 2 cm.
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