Shrub scandent, up to 10 m. Branchlets pubescent, slender. Leaves scattered, on top of 1-4 cm long lateral branchlets, ovate to oblong-ovate, apex subcaudate-acuminate (c. 2 cm), tip bluntish, base rounded, basal glands ± imperceptible, coriaceous, glabrous, smooth and rather lustrous above, laxly glandular-punctate beneath, entire, 6-10 by 3-5.5 cm, 5-plinerved from and from a little above the base, nerves faintly raised above, more distinct beneath, reticulation obscure; petiole c. 2 mm. Fascicles c. 3-flowered from old wood, ± densely short-pubescent. Pedicel slender, 8-13 mm. Bracteoles minute, subbasal. Calyx tube obconical, base ± attenuate, articulation ± indistinct, 2.5 by 2.5 mm, limb spreading, +-reflexed, 1.5 mm, obtusely 5-lobed +-halfway. Corolla tubular, thin, red with white stripes, c. 1.5 cm by 4 mm, lobes c. 2 mm. Stamens 9 and 7.5 mm; major stamens', filaments glabrous or distally with some very short hairs, c. 4.5 mm; cells narrow-oblong, granular at the obtuse base, c. 6 mm including the thin, ± divergent, c. 3 mm long tubules; connective represented by some very short hairs at the back of the cells, evanescent distally. Disk glabrous. Style rather slender, 1.8 cm.
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