Shrub or small tree (reported up to 15 m), apparently scandent occasionally. Branchlets angular or subterete, glabrous or pubescent at the tips, glabrescent. Leaves lax, ovate-oblong or-elliptic, apex shortly obtusely acuminate, base +-rounded or broadly attenuate, coriaceous, initially sparsely puberulous at the base above and all over beneath, glabrescent, or glabrous from the beginning, laxly glandular-punctulate beneath, entire, 7-15 by 3.5-5.5(-6.5) cm, 5-7-plinerved, midrib and nerves +-impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation obscure; petiole rugulose, 0.8-1.4 cm by 1.5-2 mm. Inflorescences (3-)6-10-flowered, fascicles or very short racemes from foliate or defoliate axils; rachis puberulous initially, up to 0.5 cm. Pedicels stoutish, laxly pubescent or glabrous, 2-2.5(-2.7) cm. Bracteoles at the base. Calyx tube obconical, base subtruncate to almost rounded, mostly glabrous, sometimes laxly pubescent, c. 3 mm high, 5-7 mm ø below the limb, the latter spreading, 2-3 mm, shortly obtusely or subacutely 5-lobed. Corolla campanulate, (dark) red, subdensely grey-pubescent at full anthesis (sometimes glabrescent in later stages?), rather fleshy, 2-2.5(-2.7) cm long, 5-6 mm ø at base, 2-2.5 cm across limb, lobes broad, c. 5 mm. Stamens 10-12 and 9-10 mm; major stamens: filaments +-patently subhirsute upwards, c. 4.5 mm; cells oblong, base contracted into a kind of beak, c. 8 mm including the moderately divergent, c. 3 mm long tubules; processes ribbon-like on back of each tubule and equalling it, adnate except the tip, hirsutulous below, sparingly hairy upwards. Disk subglabrous to subdensely short-hairy. Style slender, glabrous, 3-3.5 cm.
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