Suffrutescent herbs to 1 m tall; younger portions of the stem subquadrangular, glabrous to pilose, densely pilose along the rounded angles. Leaves elliptic, to 10-24 cm long and 4-12 cm wide, apically acuminate, basally attenuate, glabrous to pilose at the costa of both surfaces, often with numerous minute, reddish glands or depressions, more numerous beneath, the cystoliths numerous though minute above, the petioles to 1 cm long, the margins entire to slightly undulate. In-florescences in short, terminal spikes with a rachis to ca. 1 cm long; flowers sessile or nearly so; bracts leafy, elliptic, to 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, gland dotted, the bracteoles small, subulate, ca. 2 mm long. Flowers with the calyx to 4 mm long, gland dotted, segments lanceolate, 1-3 mm long, ca. 1 mm wide, sparingly puberulous; corolla funnelform, curved to one side, red or scarlet, the tube to 5 cm long, ca. 1 cm wide at the mouth, 4 mm wide at the base, puberulous, often gland dotted, the lobes suborbicular, 1.5 cm long, spreading, the limb ca. 3 cm broad; stamens exserted, the anthers saggitate, ca. 3 mm long. Capsules clavate, 15 mm long, 5 mm wide, puberulous, gland dotted; seeds 8 or more, orbicular, flattened, 5 mm in diameter, 1 mm thick, sericeous when dry.
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