Usually epiphytic shrubs with slender, terete, glabrous branchlets. Leaves oblong or ovate oblong, 8-19(-27) cm long, 3-7(-11) cm wide, basally cuneate to rounded, apically caudate acuminate, the tip often 2-4 cm long, entire, gla-brous both above and below, 5-plinerved with the secondary nerves originating slightly above the base and ascending near the margins, the midvein slightly im-pressed or flush above and prominently elevated beneath, the veinlets conspicu-ously reticulate and elevated on both the surfaces but especially so beneath; petioles rugose, (3-)5-12(-17) mm long, glabrous, narrowly winged above. Inflo-rescence axillary, subfasciculate or short racemose, 4-15-flowered, the rachis less than 1 cm long, in fruit 1-4 cm long, glabrate throughout; pedicels slender, stri-ate, 8-25 mm long, each subtended by an oblong or triangularly deltoid, persis-tent bract (1-)3-4 mm long and with 2, usually supramedial, deltoid, persistent bracteoles 1.5-2.5 mm long. Flowers with the hypanthium subcylindric or broadly obconic, ca. 3 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter at the summit, glabrous, the calyx limb 3.5-4.5 mm long including the lobes, the lobes 5, triangular, acute, ca. 1.5 mm long; corolla subcylindric, red with a white tip, 20-35 mm long, 6-10 mm in diameter medially and near the base, contracted above to 4-5 mm in diameter before the elongate throat, the throat often with appressed glandular trichomes 0.1-0.4 mm long, the corolla lobes oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm long; stamens 10 (or in the rare 6-parted flowers, 12) 8-10 mm long, the filaments mem-branous, brown, 3.5-4.5 mm long, connate for their entire length or sometimes lightly coherent near the base or completely separate and leading into the con-nectives, the connectives narrow, ciliate with trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, distally and alternately unequally 2-spurred, the anther sacs 3-3.2 mm long opening into pairs of tubules, the tubules, cylindric conic, 2-3 mm long, weakly coherent or distinct to the base, opening introrsely by oval clefts about ? as long as the tubules; stigma truncate, the style exserted, 32-37 mm long, glabrous. Berry subglobose, 8-10 mm high, 10-13 mm in diameter.
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