Glabrous or the flower buds rusty tomentose. Leaves opposite; lamina ovate, 6-14 by 3-5 cm, cuneate to truncate at the base to a petiole 3-5 mm long, shortly acuminate and acute or obtuse at the apex, dull on both sides; venation distinct, slightly more prominent below. Inflorescences many at the nodes; pedicel 0.5-2 mm long, articulate near the middle or with the peduncular segment obsolete and then apparently not articulate; bracts apparently 2 (owing to complete or nearly complete fusion of two of the three bracts), 2-3 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, acute, imbricate and enveloping the ovary. Corolla in mature bud 25-35 mm long, inflated below the middle, narrowed to a neck, weakly clavate and rounded at the apex, cream or very pale pink below and orange or red above; tube in the open flower 11-15 mm long with the lobes reflexed 5-8 mm higher. Anther 3-4 mm long, slightly longer than the free part of the filament.
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