Young branchlets tomentellous with verticillate-branched hairs, older ones glabrous, longitudinally wrinkled. Leaves opposite, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, rounded at the apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 4–7 lin. broad, coriaceous, rather densely pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 1–4 1/2 lin. long. Heads solitary, terminating much-contracted axillary short-shoots, 3–5-flowered; peduncle 4–12 lin. long, tomentellous; bract subequal to or shorter than the receptacle and calyx, ovate-oblong, very concave, 2 1/2–3 lin. long, tomentellous outside. Receptacle and calyx together cupular, 2 1/4–2 3/8 lin. long, very densely villous from the base, villous band 1 3/4–2 lin. long. Calyx subtruncate or slightly lobed, more sparingly villous than the receptacle, long-ciliate, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long. Buds subcylindric. Corolla greenish cream-coloured, about 2 in. long, densely silky-villous outside; tube 9 lin. long, basal swelling very slight, about 3 1/2 lin. long; lobes linear, broadened upwards, 1 1/4–1 1/3 in. long, reflexed above the insertion of the filaments. Filaments inserted 2 1/2–2 3/4 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, 9 lin. long; anthers linear, 2 1/2–2 3/4 lin. long, 2-horned after dehiscence. Style pentagonal, not thickened upwards; stigma capitate, 1/4 lin. in diam. Berry ellipsoid, 6–7 lin. long, bright red, hirsute, terminal cup 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long.
