Shrub with arching, strigose and often scandent stems; leaves 3-9 cm. long, ovate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, remotely denticulate, 3-to 5-nerved at base, pale and hirsute-strigose beneath, green with few pili above, short-petiolate; flowers pedicellate, 1-3, on short branchlets; hypanthium and calyx grayish-strigose, calyx-lobes 5-10 mm. long, deltoid-acuminate; petals 15-20 mm. long, broadly obovate or suborbicular, glabrous or finely villous on both surfaces; stamens and style about one-half as long as petals; capsule 10 mm. long.
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