Epiphytic shrub up to 30–50 cm. high, often pendulous; roots thick, fleshy.. Leaf-lamina elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 2–4.5(–6.5) cm. long, 1.2–2.8(–3–8) cm. wide, apex emarginate, base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous; midrib and 1–2 pairs of longitudinal nerves slightly raised above, prominent beneath; petiole 1–3 mm. long.. Inflorescence 1–5-flowered axillary cymes; peduncle 2–10 mm. long; pedicels 3–15 mm. long.. Flowers 4-merous.. Calyx campanulate, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. in diameter, glabrous apart from minute glandular cilia; lobes little developed, ± 0.5 mm. high.. Petals obovate, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, waxy red.. Anthers equal, 1.2–1.5 mm. long; connective produced immediately below the anther into 2 upcurved anter ior spurs 0.7–0.8 mm. long and 1 pendent posterior spur of similar length; filaments 3 mm. long.. Fruit globose, ± 4–5 mm. in diameter.. Fig. 19.
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