Herb or subshrub to 3 m tall, stems and twigs fistulose, pubescent with ?viscid, dendritic, more or less persistent hairs. Leaves broadly ovate or elliptic, to 20 cm long, apically acute or acuminate, basally obtuse, sometimes somewhat oblique, above with scattered simple and dendritic hairs, beneath softly tomentose with dendritic hairs, lateral veins strongly ascending and almost straight, ca. 5 on each side of the midvein; the petioles 3-6 cm long, shaggy pubescent with dendritic hairs; minor leaves rotund, ca. 1/3 as large as the major leaves. Inflorescence a dense many-flowered fascicle, the peduncle obscure, 1-to several-branched, the branches less than 4 mm long with a cicatrix of large pedicel scars; the pedicels filiform, 10-15 mm long, glabrate. Flowers 4-merous; the calyx 3-4 mm long, slightly longer in fruit, densely tomentoge outside, glabrous within, the lobes unequal, 0.8-1.6 mm long, deltoid; the corolla yel-lowish, densely fine puberulent outside with minute, simple hairs, urceolate, the tube and limb short, not exceeding the calyx, the lobes obtuse, spreading or reflexed, ca. 4 mm long, glabrous within; stamens sometimes somewhat un-equal, the filaments relatively stout, glabrous, the anthers ovoid, yellow, apiculate or not; ovary and style sometimes glabrous, the style exserted ca. 2 mm, the stigma of two appressed, ovate lobes, smooth. Fruit globose, pubescent, red, ca. 6 mm across.
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