Stems to 50 cm. from an extensive untidy system of surface runners bearing numerous haustorial connections; twigs terete, tomentellous with brownish dendritic hairs, soon glabrescent.. Leaves opposite to subopposite; petiole 1–2 mm. long; lamina coriaceous, mid-green, elliptic-obovate, 2–3.5 cm. long, 1–2 cm. wide, rounded at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, tomentose on both surfaces, soon glabrescent, obscurely nerved.. Flowers 1–6, sessile, clustered in the axils, 5-merous; bract unilateral, narrowly boat-shaped, 2–3 mm. long, glabrescent.. Receptacle urceolate, 1.5–2 mm. long, tomentose.. Calyx annular, 1 mm. long, long-ciliate.. Corolla 3 cm. long, dull purplish, lobes green turning dull red inside, white stellate-pubescent; buds with a narrow straight tube, with a slight ellipsoid-clavate apical swelling; lobes linear, slightly thickened, 4–5 mm. long, remaining erect.. Anthers 1–1.5 mm. long, as long as the filaments.. Style dull purple, slender, tapered; stigma ovoid-subglobose, 0.6 mm. across.. Berry red, ovoid, 7 mm. long, 5 mm. in diameter.. Fig. 13.
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