Stems twining, glabrous; leaves apparently thinly coriaceous; petiole 1/4-1/2 in. long, channelled down the face, glabrous or with a few minute hairs on the margins of the channel; blade 1-2 1/2 in. long, 1/3-1 in. broad, lanceolate, acute, cuneate or slightly rounded at the base, glabrous; peduncles or flowering axes 3/4-1 in. long, very slender, bearing 2-3 distant fascicles of 3-5 flowers, glabrous; bracts minute; pedicels 2 1/2-4 lin. long, filiform, glabrous; sepals 2/3 lin. long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous; corolla rotate, rosy (Flanagan); lobes 1 1/2 lin. long, 2/3 to nearly 1 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, slightly twisted at the apex, glabrous on the back, with a microscopic puberulence on the inner face, invisible when wetted; corona-tubercles entirely adnate from close to the base to the apex of the filament part of the staminal column and not exceeding it, wedge-shaped, broadest at the somewhat prominent subtruncate or broadly rounded base; staminal column 2/3 lin. long and the same in diam. at the top; anther-appendages reniform or transversely oblong, abruptly inflexed on the truncate style-apex; pollen-masses distinctly pendulous.
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