Stems to 50 cm. or so; branchlets soon thickening to 3–5 mm. diameter, reddish brown turning grey.. Leaves mostly opposite or subopposite, but often a few crowded below inflorescence; petiole 0.5–2 cm. long, glandular-hairy in groove; lamina slightly fleshy, ovate-lanceolate to ovate or broadly elliptic, 3.5–5 cm. long, 2–4 cm. wide, bluntly pointed at the apex, with 3–6 pairs of obscure lateral nerves.. Racemes terminal on long and few-leaved short shoots, 7–17 cm. long, laxly 30–50-flowered; pedicel 2–4 mm. long; bract ovate-triangular, slightly gibbous, 1.5 mm. long.. Receptacle 2–2.5 mm. long.. Calyx subentire to slightly toothed, glandular-ciliolate.. Corolla in bud quadrangular in lower sixth or seventh, scarcely shouldered to tapered upper part; petals red or yellow, linear, 2–2.3 cm. long, slightly thickened and grooved below filament-insertion.. Anthers 8 mm. long, ± as long as filament.. Style 14–15 mm. long.. Berry red, obovoid, 7 mm. long.
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