Herbs, apparently ascending; stems drying brownish red, terete, glabrous. Leaves in somewhat unequal pairs; petiole 1-2 cm, glabrous; blade drying papery or rather thickly papery, abaxially yellowish or greenish yellow with veins brown, narrowly elliptic-ovate to oblanceolate, 4-10 × 1.5-3.5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse then cuspidate or caudate; secondary veins 7-11 pairs; stipules caducous, not seen. Inflorescences cymose to subcorymbose, many flowered, branched to several orders, puberulent; peduncles 1.5-2.5 cm; axes spiciform to helicoid, principal ones ca. 1 cm; bracteoles turning purple when dry, linear-lanceolate, 3-5 mm, sharply acute. Flowers with biology unknown, subsessile. Calyx with hypanthium compressed subglobose-turbinate, ca. 1.5 mm, 5-or 10-ribbed, puberulent; lobes triangular, 0.7-1 mm, subglabrous, with 1 gland in each sinus. Corolla purplish red, tubular, glabrous and slenderly 5-ribbed outside; tube ca. 4.5 mm, inside with white villous ring below middle; lobes subtriangular, 0.4-0.5 mm, dorsally with horn 1.5-2 mm and drying black, apex incurved-rostrate. Capsules not seen. Fl. Apr.
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