Shrub. Branchlets slender, tips glabrous. Leaves subovate-oblong to lanceolate, apex subcaudate-acuminate, 1.5-2 cm, subacute, base broadly attenuate, coriaceous, glabrous, very laxly glandular-punctate beneath, entire, edge not or faintly revolute, 8-13 by (2.5-)3.5-5.5 cm, 5-plinerved from and from a little above the base, midrib and nerves slightly impressed above, markedly raised beneath, reticulation rather lax, raised beneath only; petiole 8-10 by 2-3 mm, somewhat flattened. Flowers in abbreviate, 4-6-flowered, almost fascicle-like racemes, ± densely and very shortly pubescent; rachis slender, 0.5-1 by 0.1 cm. Pedicels slender, 1.5-2(-2.5) cm. Bracteoles basal, subulate, 1-2 mm. Calyx strongly winged, wings c. 1 mm high (dry), tube broadly cylindric, c. 4 by 3-4 mm, base abrupt, limb suberect or ± spreading, c. 2 mm, minutely 5-denticulate. Corolla tubular, 1.8-2.2 cm, ± 5-angular, the angles corresponding to the wings of the calyx tube, thin, apparently red, densely short-pubescent outside, lobes 2-3 mm. Stamens 9-10 and 8-9 mm; major stamens: filaments slightly short-hairy upwards, 3 mm; cells plus tubules 7-8 mm, former beaked at the base inward; tubules 3.5-4 mm, ± divergent; connective obscure, indicated merely by some short hairs. Disk deepened, glabrous. Style very slender, glabrous, 2.2-2.5 cm, exserted to 4-5 mm at full anthesis.
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