Shrub, often scandent, 1-2-7 m sometimes up to 7 m tall; lateral branchlets patent, subterete, new growth tomentulose with stellate hairs intermixed. Stipules absent or very soon deciduous, represented by a faint interpetiolar ridge. Leaves opposite or subopposite, persistent, petiole bases prominent, concave; blade ovate-lanceolate, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, varying in size on the same branch, ranging from about 2 ? 5 cm long and 1 cm broad to about 9 cm long and 3 • 8 cm broad, apex acuminate to an acute point, base cuneate and decurrent on the petiole, upper surface green, usually drying dark, at first stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, midrib and veins slightly impressed, under surface tawny and rufous, stellate-tomentose, midrib and veins slightly raised, margin entire or with a few irregular deep lobes; petiole 0-5-1-7 cm long, tomentulose, glabrescent, channelled above, winged at least in upper part by the decurrent blade. Panicles cymose, axillary and ultimate cymes more or less congested into false umbels; bracts linear-terete, 1-4 mm long, tomentulose; peduncles tomenÂtulose; pedicels short, about 1 mm long, tomentulose. Calyx tubular, about 4 mm long, densely stellate-tomentose without; tube about 3 mm long, glabrous within; lobes about 1 mm long, broadly ovate subobtuse, erect. Corolla cream, light orange to whitish with orange centre, tubular, sparsely stellate-tomentulose outside at least to the basal portion of the lobes; tube about 7 mm long, loosely pubescent within below the stamens; slightly widened and opened at the throat which is glabrous: lobes about 2 mm long, subquadrate-orbicular to oblong, broadly rounded at the apex, sometimes retuse, slightly narrowed at the base, spreading to reflexed, at least one strongly reflexed, glabrous within, stellate-tomentulose at least at base dorsally. Stamens inserted just above the middle, free part of filament filiform, about as long as the anther; anthers included. Ovary more or less oblong in outline, stellate-tomenÂtulose, about 1-5 mm long; style subglabrous, about 1-5 mm long; stigma narrow-clavate, terminal, stigmatic surface decurrent for 1-5 mm. Capsule about 5 mm long, exserted from the persistent calyx for little over half its length, stellate-tomentulose or minutely lepidote without. Fig. 22: 3.
