an erect herb, parasitical, simple or divided at the base, 3–15 in. high, glandular-pubescent, whole plant of an intense scarlet colour shaded with rich orange; root (perhaps that of the host altered) tuberous; stems angular, furrowed; leaves opposite or the upper scattered, scale-like, erect, adpressed to the stem or nearly so, oval, ovate, lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or acuminate, not much narrowed at the base, entire, 1/6– 2/3 in. long, 1/15– 1/4 in. broad, concave, few or moderately numerous; flowers 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; racemes terminal, 6–16-flowered, 3–12 in. long, rather dense; pedicels suberect, 1/4–1 in. long, bibracteate at the apex; bracteoles narrowly oval or subspathulate, 1/3– 2/5 in. long; calyx ovoid-inflated, 5-cleft, dull crimson, 5/8– 2/3 in. long, glandular-pubescent at least about the lobes on each face; tube shortly narrowed at the base; lobes unequal, lanceolate or the shorter ovate, 1/6– 1/3 in. long, subacute; corolla tough, not membranous; tube cylindrical-clavate, somewhat dilated and decurved above, 1–1 1/3 in. long, narrow below, about 1/4 in. in diam. at the top, glandular-puberulous outside, posterior half scarlet, abruptly separated from the bright orange anterior half (Wolley Dod); throat golden-coloured, but little contracted, round, 1/5 in. in diam.; limb nearly flat, spreading, 1/2– 5/8 in. in diam., bright red; lobes rounded, 1/6– 1/5 in. long, 1/5– 1/4 in. broad, entire, scarcely wavy; stamens all perfect; filaments moderately or scarcely glandular-pilose; style clavate and strongly hooked towards the stigmatic apex. null
