Shrub, c. 2 m. Branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves lax, ovate to oblong-ovate, apex caudate-acuminate (2-3 cm), subacute, base broadly attenuate, sometimes +-rounded, basal glands small though distinct, coriaceous, glabrous, very laxly or not glandular-punctate beneath, remotely denticulate to subentire, 6-15 by 2.5-8 cm, 5(-7)-plinerved from and from somewhat above the base, nerves and lax reticulation +-impressed above, raised beneath, veinlets prominent-reticulate only beneath; petiole 4-6 by 1.5-2 mm. Flowers 1-3 per fascicle, glabrous. Pedicels +-slender, 10-13 mm. Bracteoles minute, basal. Calyx tube cup-shaped to subobconical, base rounded or attenuate, 3-4 by c. 3 mm, limb sub-erect or +-spreading, 1.5 mm, very shortly obtusely 5-lobed. Corolla tubular, bright red, 1.5-1.8(-2) cm by 4-5 mm, lobes subacute, c. 2.5 mm. Stamens 7-7.5 and 5.5-6 mm; major stamens: filaments 2.5 mm, sparingly hairy or ciliate upwards; cells narrow-oblong, base subacute, 5-5.5 mm including the ± divergent, 1.5 mm long tubules; connective sparsely hairy at the back of the cells, evanescent upwards. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, +-exserted.
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