Herbs or subshrubs, the stems succulent to 1.5 m, at the apex white tomentose to lanate; glabrescent below. Leaves subequal to unequal in a pair, elliptic to ovate, 10-20 cm long, 3-9 cm wide, membranous, the apex acuminate, the base cuneate, serrulate, above dark green, pilose to sericeous, below lighter green or reddish, sparsely sericeous; petioles elongate, to 12 cm long, sericeous. In-florescences densely congested in the leaf axils, corymbiform, of many flowers; peduncles ca. 1 mm long; bracts ovate, reddish, the margin fimbriate; pedicels short. Flowers with the calyx lobes erect, ovate to obovate, ca. 1 cm long, orange red, pilose to sericeous, more dense on the midvein, the margin pectinate to fimbriate; corolla reddish orange, infrequent or caducous, more or less erect in the calyx, the tube slightly spurred at the base, ca. 1.5 cm long, ventricose or broader at the middle and contracted at the throat, outside pilose toward the apex, glabrous below, inside glandular, the limb short, erect, the lobes nearly orbicular, ca. 2 mm long and wide; stamens included, the filaments curved, reddish, the anthers oblong, coherent; disc reduced to a single posterior gland; ovary pubescent, the style ca. 5 mm long, white, the stigma stomatomorphic. Capsule globose, ca. 5 mm in diam.; seeds not seen.
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