Terrestrial suffrutescent herbs or low shrubs; stems sprawling with tips ascending, to 1 m long, but usually ca. 0.3 m tall, succulent, ca. 8 mm thick, rooting from the nodes, the internodes green, densely pilose. Leaves subequal in a pair, oblanceolate or obovate, 10.5-34.5 cm long, 3.6-10.2 cm wide, membranous, the apex acute to acuminate, the base cuneate to decurrent, dentate, crenate, or ser-rate, above green, pilose, below lighter green, densely pilose along the prominent veins; petioles 0.5-3.4 cm long, densely pilose. Inflorescences axillary, of 1-few flowers; peduncles when present very short; bracts linear, pilose; pedicels slender, 0.6-2.4 cm long, densely pilose; calyx lobes linear or narrowly triangular, 1.0-2.4 cm long, green, pilose; corolla white, oblique in the calyx, tubular, 2.5-4.5 cm long, the base spurred, ca. 5 mm in diam., broader above, to 1.5 cm wide at the throat, the outside pilose, the limb patent, lobes semiorbicular, to 1.5 cm long and wide, toothed; stamens included, the filaments 2-3 cm long, glabrous, coil-ing after anthesis; disc gland 1; ovary sericeous, the style glabrous, the stigma stomatomorphic. Capsule broadly ovoid surrounded by the persistent calyx, 6-9 mm long, 8-11 mm wide; seeds ellipsoid, striations deep, oblique, brown.
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