Glabrous or the inflorescence and flower shortly and sparsely tomentose. Leaves opposite; lamina elliptic to ovate, 5-12 by 3-7 cm, cuneate at the base to a petiole 5-10 mm long, usually somewhat acuminate and acute to shortly rounded at the apex, dull on both sides; venation distinct. Inflorescences several to many at the nodes; pedicel mostly 4-7 mm long and articulate above the middle, rarely obsolete; bracts 3, usually with two of these partly or completely fused and slightly imbricate with the third, 1-1.5 mm long, acute. Corolla in mature bud 25-35(-45) mm long, inflated below the middle, narrowed to a neck, weakly clavate and rounded or truncate at the apex, cream to red, sometimes darker above; tube in the open flower 12—18(—22) mm long with the lobes reflexed 4-6 mm higher. Anther 3-4 mm long, about equal to the free part of the filament. Fig. 42c, d.