Terrestrial herbs, to 70 cm tall; stem erect, somewhat zig-zag, reddish, puberu-lent, 3-5 mm in diam.; rhizome ca. 5 mm in diam., the scales reddish, pilose. Leaves usually unequal, the larger leaf in a pair elliptic to obovate, 10-20 cm long, 5-8 cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base oblique, rotund, the margin dentate to serrate, the upper surface dark green, hirsute, below lighter green, puberulent, the lateral veins 8-11 pairs, arching; petioles about 1/3 the length of the blade, pilose; smaller leaf in a pair ovate or broadly elliptic, 4-11 cm long, 2.5-5.0 cm wide, otherwise similar to the larger leaf. Inflorescences termi-nating the stem, paniculate, about equalling the longest leaf; peduncles terete, elongating with age, 3.0-8.2 cm long, tawny in dried specimens, glandular or eglandular pilose, the apex bibracteate; the bracts leaflike, linear, ca. 3 mm long, green, pilose; pedicels erect, 3-22 cm long, elongating in fruit, glandular pilose. Flowers showy; floral tube oblique on the pedicel, cylindric, 3-5 mm long, 2 mm in diam. at anthesis, glandular pilose, the base slightly gibbous; calyx lobes oblong, 2-4 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, erect, the apex rounded, not recurved, green outside, glandular pilose, inside glandular; corolla white at the base outside, purple or blue-spotted inside, above bluish at the limb, the tube oblique in the calyx, campanulate, 1.2-1.6 cm long, ca. 3 mm wide at the base, ampliate to 1.2 cm broad at the throat, the outside sparsely pilose to strigose, the inside glabrous, the limb lobes erect, nearly equal, rotund, ca. 5 mm broad, entire; stamens included, the filaments curved, ca. 8 mm long, adnate to base of the corolla tube for ca. 2 mm, glabrous, the anthers triangular, coherent by their apices into a square; disc lacking; ovary apex pilose, the style curved, 8-10 mm long, glabrous, the stigma stomatomorphic. Capsule cylindric, ca. 1.5 cm long, brown, glandular pilose; seeds not seen.
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