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Information An erect shrub about 4 feet high, pale tawny-tomentose when young; branches erect-patent, supra-axillary, rather slender, rigid, densely clothed with short soft tomentum. Leaves 2 1/2–3 1/2 by 3/4–1 2/3 in. elliptical or oblong, obtuse or subacute at the apex, rounded or somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, rather scabridly hairy above, pale tawny or grey-white, softy or villous-silky beneath; petiole very short. Flowers in dense fascicles at the lower nodes of the branches, shortly pedicellate. Calyx 1/4– 1/3 in. long, densely silky tomentose, lobes subulate-lanceolate. Berry yellowish red, as in A. rubiginosus, nearly 1/2 in. long.

Information A shrub of 3–5 feet, rather densely virgate-ramose. Branches rigid, stout, densely clothed with red tomentum, spreading; branchlets with paler almost velvety hairs. Leaves very rigidly coriaceous, 1–2 by 3/4–1 3/4 in., broadly ovate-cordiform, obtuse, margins recurved and waved, upper surface dark green subscabridly pubescent with sunken veins, under surface greenish white velvety tomentose with broad stout reddishly tomentose, midrib and many stout reticulate veins; petiole very short; stipules subulate from a broad base, 1/4 in. long. Flowers as in A. rubiginosus, but calyx-lobes rather more obtuse, 1/5 in. long, and corolla rather shorter and more densely tomentose and of a brighter more orange red, lobes ovate, apiculate. Berry about 2/3– 3/4 in. diameter; seeds 1/3 in. long.

Information Shrubs, slightly to much branched from a woody rootstock.Leaves usually opposite or sometimes in whorls of 3, shortly petiolate; stipules connate into a sheath below, densely hairy within, distinctly subulate-caudate at the apex, at least the base persistent.Flowers conspicuous, in few- to several-flowered simple or branched peduncled pubescent cymes; bracts small.Buds elongate, ferruginous pubescent outside.Calyx tube campanulate; limb-tube very reduced; lobes 5, well-developed and distinctly leaf-like.Corolla tube cylindrical, elongate, slightly to distinctly curved, open and glabrous at the throat but with a ring of deflexed hairs inside just above the base, and some scattered long hairs elsewhere; lobes triangular-ovate, reflexed, much shorter than the corolla tube, appendaged.Stamens inserted at the throat, the anther tips exserted.Ovary globose or semi-globose, 4–5-locular, each locule with a pendulous ovule; style slender, glabrous, shortly exserted; pollen presenter large, cylindrical, 4–5-lobed at the apex.Fruit globose or lobed when dry, fleshy, crowned with calyx lobes, containing up to 5 pyrenes.Pyrenes thinly woody, smooth, scarcely crested around apex, truncate at point of attachment.Embryo with exceptionally long cotyledons.

Information An ornamental shrub, with the habit of an Azalea, 3–5 feet high, branching from the base; branches strict rigid, glabrescent; branchlets supra-axillary, hoary, erect-patent, tips shortly tomentose. Leaves 1–3 by 2/3–1 3/4 in., elliptical or obovate, subcoriaceous, rather crass, obtuse retuse or with a short obtuse point, somewhat wedge-shaped at the base, above minutely scabrid hairs; veins closely reticulate; below ashy or pale tawny densely tomentose with simple and stellate hairs, nerves many reticulate, margins flat or nearly so; petioles 1/6– 1/4 in.; stipules about 1/4 in. long, subulate from a broad connate base. Flowers in axillary somewhat whorled fascicles, chiefly below the leaves, appearing before the full development of the leaves, drooping; peduncles pedicels and calyx shortly tomentose. Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, subacute or obtuse, 1/5 in. long. Corolla 1 in. long, densely tomentose, rather rigid, bright brick-red; lobes 1/4 in. long, ovate-subulate. Berry about 1/2 in. diameter.

Information Suffrutex 0.3–1.5 m tall.Stems erect, single or several shoots from a woody rootstock, mostly burnt off every year; young parts densely covered with rather rough short spreading pale yellowish hairs; older stems ridged with reddish-brown glabrous bark, eventually scaling in small pieces.Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, 3.5–15.5 × 1.2–7.5 cm, ovate, broadly to narrowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, very discolorous, rather roughly pubescent above, roughly velvety beneath and obscuring the surface, or only densely pubescent on all the venation and not obscuring the surface; venation drying pale and yellowish above contrasting with brownish-green, and raised closely reticulate and brownish beneath contrasting with green; petiole 0.6–1.3 cm long; stipules c. 2 mm long, triangular, with subulate appendage c. 5 mm long.Inflorescences often borne at leafless nodes, (1)3–7(10 or more)-flowered; peduncle up to 7 mm long; secondary inflorescence branches sometimes present; pedicels 2–12 mm long, bracts c. 6 × 3.5 mm, oblong.Calyx tube 3 mm long, campanulate, densely yellowish-brown pubescent; limb-tube c. 1 mm long; lobes 5–13 × 2–5.5 mm, triangular to ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, pubescent.Corolla apiculate in bud; orange-yellow or bright orange, densely ± velvety pubescent; tube 1.7–2.5 cm long; lobes 5–6 × 2.5–4 mm, triangular-ovate, often distinctly veined in dry state, distinctly appendaged.Style exserted 5–6 mm, the pollen presenter greenish-yellow, 2–3 mm long, cylindrical, lobed at the apex.Fruit yellowish, 1.8 × 1.4 cm, ellipsoid, or 1.3 cm in diameter and subglobose, shortly yellowish-brown velvety pubescent, ± lobed when dry, crowned with persistent calyx.

Information Leaf blades velvety beneath, with short matted hairs.