Herbs or shrubs. Leaves petiolate. Inflorescences in spikes, racemes or nar-row panicles; bracts or bractlets shorter than the calyx. Flowers with the calyx 5-merous, deeply segmented, the segments lanceolate; corolla broad tubular, slightly gibbous, scarlet, glabrous or hirtellous, beaked at the tip before ex-pansion of the lips, the upper lip erect, narrow, partially enclosing the stamens and the style, the lower lip triangular, recurved, the apex minutely trilobate; stamens 2, exserted; anthers 1-or 2-celled; ovary glabrous; mature capsules not seen.
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