Branches slender, 1–1 1/2 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, rich brown, densely lenticellate, glabrous, bearing short lateral spreading branchlets. Leaves opposite, those on the lateral branchlets elliptic, acuminate, 14–16 lin. long, 7–8 lin. broad, the others lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate to the acute or subacute apex, cuneate, obtuse or nearly rounded at the base, 1 1/4–4 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, lateral nerves slightly raised on both surfaces or rather indistinct on the lower, margin slightly crispate; petiole 2–4 lin. long. Umbels solitary, many-flowered; peduncle stout, 3/4–1 lin. long; pedicels 2 1/2–4 lin. long; bract ovate from a saucer-shaped base, truncate, broadly umbonate, umbo much flattened, dorsal margin 5/8– 3/4 lin. long, ventral margin hardly 1/4 lin. long. Receptacle 3/4– 7/8 lin. long. Calyx erect, subtruncate, 1/4– 3/8 lin. long, ciliolate; intramarginal ring present. Corolla 9 1/2–11 1/2 lin. long, lower part much inflated, slaty grey, upper part narrower, clavate in bud, blood-red; tube 4–5 lin. long, glandular inside, split unilaterally nearly to the base; lobes reflexed, narrowly spathulate, much broadened into the base, 5 1/2–6 1/2 lin. long, apical enlargement 1 1/2 lin. long, 5/8 lin. broad. Filaments inserted 1/2– 3/4 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, tapering upwards, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, tooth subulate, 3/8– 1/2 lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, 1 1/8 lin. long, connective not produced above the cells. Disc 1 1/8 lin. high, lobes broadly subulate.
