Branchlets long, straight, pendulous, slender, slightly over 1 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, youngest part rusty-pubescent, older parts stellate-puberulous, finally glabrous, finely and rather densely lenticellate; nodes rather conspicuous, internodes 3/4–1 1/2 in. long. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, rounded at the apex, cordate or subcordate at the base, 1 1/4–2 1/4 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, slightly glaucous; petiole 1 1/2–2 1/2 (–4 1/2) lin. long, pubescent. Heads axillary, solitary, 4-flowered; peduncle 3/4–1 in. long, rather slender, glabrous or stellate-puberulous; bract foliaceous, elliptic, 1/2–1 in. long, 1/3– 2/3 in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces. Receptacle and calyx together tubular, 2 3/4–3 lin. long, basal villous band about 1 lin. long. Calyx subtruncate or irregularly lobed, 2 1/4 lin. long, sparingly pilose outside, ciliate. Corolla 2 1/4 in. long, densely villous outside except the lowermost 2 lin., orange, with green lobes; tube 9–10 lin. long; lobes 1 1/2 in. long, linear, the uppermost 3 1/2 lin. linear-lanceolate. Filaments inserted 3 3/4 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes; anthers 2 lin. long. Disc not lobed, 1/6 lin. high, glabrous. Berry oblong-ellipsoid, 4 lin. long, glabrous, deep red, apical cup 1 3/4 lin. long.
