the apex of the blade 3-lobed, the median of these ovate oblong, ca. 3 times longer than the lateral pair of apical lobes, the costa prominent above and be-neath, convex beneath, to 0.6 cm wide, the lateral veins usually 1 per lobe, the secondary veins simulating lateral veins in each lobe, ca. 7, arcuate, prominulous, the finest veinlets lineolate, thinly coriaceous, glabrate above, puberulent on the veins beneath; petioles to 17 cm long, probably longer in the larger leaves, lignose, dilated proximally, glabrescent, with large foliaceous basal auricles, subrotund, to 7.5 cm long, ca. 8 cm wide basally, fleshy and red, the margin erosulose or crisp, often with marginally subulate processes, to 2 cm long, ca. 0.1 cm wide, minutely puberulent; stipules free, lanceolate to triangular subulate, to 5.5 cm long, sericeous outside. Inflorescences axillary, to 6 cm long, the cymules densely flowered. Flowers with the hypanthium ca. 5 mm long, sericeous, the calycine cup subcampanulate, 3-4 times the length of the hypanthium, constricted basally, thinly coriaceous, minutely sericeous outside, glabrous within, the lobes oblong, 4-7 mm long, obtuse; corolla tube ca. 2.5 cm long (fide Standley), appressed pilose. Fruits sessile, orange, rotund, ca. 2 cm in diam., minutely pubescent to glabrate, minutely rugulose but not scaly, the persistent calyx as long as or longer than the fruit.
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Shrubs to 3 m tall, the stems terete, lignose, glabrous. Leaves crowded ter-minally, oblong, to 1 m or more in length, deeply lobed and pinnatifid, the indi-vidual lobes narrowly oblong, to 45 cm long, to 10 cm wide, tapering deltoidly,