Shrub to 3 m.; young shoots sparsely puberulous but soon quite glabrous.. Leaf-blades elliptic-oblong or with a tendency to be oblanceolate-oblong, 7–25 cm. long, 2.8–9.2 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, thinly coriaceous, adpressed hairy beneath when young but soon entirely glabrous; lateral nerves 15–17; petioles thick, ± 5 mm. long, rugu-lose, at first pubescent, later glabrous.. Flowers partly borne on older leafless twigs, solitary; pedicels 1.8–4 cm. long, pubescent; bracteoles elliptic, ± 3 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, pubescent.. Sepals ovate, 3 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, pubescent.. Corolla red (fide Peter); tube bowl-shaped, ± 2.5 mm. long, grooved and glabrous inside; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, 2–2.4 cm. long, 6–7 mm. wide, narrowed at the base, densely shortly pubescent on both surfaces.. Fruit not known.
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