Branchlets slender, glabrous, finely striate, drying brown, internodes 1 1/2–3 in. long. Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate to the acute or obtuse apex, rounded or obtuse at the base, 3 1/2–5 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad, thinly coriaceous, glabrous, dull, not wrinkled; lateral nerves distinct on both surfaces; petiole 1 1/2–5 lin. long. Umbels axillary, ternate, 5–8-flowered; peduncle 1 1/2–2 lin. long; pedicels 2 1/2–4 lin. long; bract elliptic from a saucer-shaped base, strongly umbonate, dorsal margin 5/8 lin. long, ventral margin patulous, 1/6 lin. long. Receptacle 3/4 lin. long. Calyx suberect, 3/8– 1/2 lin. long. Corolla yellow and red, hardly 1 3/4 in. long, truncate in bud; tube about 11 1/2 lin. long, the lowermost 2–2 1/2 lin. slightly swollen; lobes 9 lin. long, subspathulate above, thickened and shoulder-shaped at the apex. Filaments inserted about 1 lin. above the insertion of the corolla-lobes, 6 1/2–6 3/4 lin. long, tooth 3/8– 1/2 lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, 3/4– 7/8 lin. long. Disc 1/4 lin. high or less, slightly lobed.
