stem twining, 2/3– 3/4 lin. thick, pubescent; leaves spreading, thinly pubescent to almost tomentose; petiole 1/2–2 lin. long; blade 1/3–1 1/4 in. long, 1/2–3 lin. broad, linear or linear-oblong, shortly sagittate or hastate at the base, obtuse, more or less revolute at the margins; cymes subaxillary, 3–9-flowered; peduncle 2–4 lin. long, pubescent; bracts 1 lin. long, linear-subulate, pubescent; pedicels 1 1/2–2 lin. long, pubescent; sepals 1 1/2–3 lin. long, 1/2– 3/4 lin. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, erect, adpressed to the corolla, pubescent; corolla tubular, slightly inflated below, 5-angled, pink, glabrous or puberulous along the angles only outside; tube 3 1/2–3 3/4 lin. long, furnished inside below the middle with 5 tufts of deflexed hairs; lobes spirally connivent-erect, 1 lin. long, about 1/2 lin. broad at the base, deltoid-lanceolate, laterally compressed, with a gibbosity at their base which gradually tapers to their acute tips, pubescent inside, green; corona-tubercles small, obtuse, placed at the level of the middle of the hairy patches; staminal column about 2 lin. long, shortly 5-spurred at the middle; filament part stout, cylindric; follicles 2–2 3/4 in. long, 4–5 lin. thick, lanceolate, tapering into a long beak, glabrous; seeds 2 1/2–3 lin. long, ovate, flattish, minutely tuberculate, black. null
