the twigs, young leaves and peduncles covered with ferruginous, stellate pubescence; leaves opposite or nearly so, petiolate, elliptic-oblong, obtuse at both ends, penninerved, minutely pulverulent-rugulose; peduncles short, 2–3–4-flowered; flowers sessile; calyx hirsute; corolla densely clothed with long, silky, erect or appressed, smooth hairs, subcylindrical, semi-5-cleft, the narrow linear segments at length reflexed. Robust; the older branches with a rough, greyish-ashen bark, spreading. Leaves pale-green, 2–3 inches long, 3/4–1–1 1/2 inch wide; petioles about 1/2 inch long. Peduncles 1/4– 1/2 inch long, or very short. Bracts cup-shaped, obliquely-ovate. The pubescence of the young parts looks powdery, on older parts it is stellate, and though it soon rubs off, is sometimes long-persistent on the under surfaces of the leaves. Corolla pale-yellowish green and red, slender, nearly 2 inches long.
