Glabrous. Leaves opposite or slightly displaced; lamina narrowly ovate to ovate, 6-16 by 2-6 cm, cuneate to truncate at the base to a petiole 10-25 mm long, mostly obtuse at the apex, dull on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib distinct above and raised below and the main laterals visible on both sides. Inflorescences at the nodes; axis 12-18 mm long, 12-18 mm wide; involucral bracts in 8-11 pairs, the longest inner ones oblong-spathulate, 60-90 mm long, remaining appressed after anthesis, red; flowers in 3 or 4 pairs of sessile triads, all with pedicels c. 0.5 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 6-merous, 90-120 mm long, slender, truncate or obtuse at the apex, red, occasionally yellow-green, sometimes yellow above; tube in the open flower 40-60 mm long and the lobes reflexed 35-45 mm higher. Anther 9-10 mm long; free part of the filament c. 4 mm long. Fig. 30. Fig. 31e.
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