A pendulous bush, 5 ft. long. Branches pendulous, terete, stout, up to nearly 4 lin. in diam., glabrous, greyish-brown, smooth in a young state, minutely and rather densely lenticellate when adult. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, gradually narrowed towards the acute apex, rounded at the base, 3–4 3/4 in. long, 1 1/3–2 1/3 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous; petiole stout, channelled, 5–7 lin. long. Heads 4-flowered; peduncle stout, 2 lin. long, enlarged above, sockets of the flowers obliquely inserted, cupular, nearly 1/2 lin. deep, touching one another laterally and separated in the centre by a shallow apical depression; bract obliquely cupular, ventral margin over 1/2 lin. long, dorsal margin 1 1/4 lin. long. Receptacle and calyx together campanulate, about 2 lin. long. Calyx subtruncate, 1 lin. long. Corolla 1 in. long in bud, not known in a fully developed state, carmine-red, dark green above, slightly swollen at the base, apical swelling ellipsoid, 2 lin. long, nearly 1 1/2 lin. in diam., pentagonal, the angles strongly ribbed. Filaments 2 1/2 lin. long, excluding the tooth, tooth stout, acute, 3/8 lin. long; anthers oblong-linear, over 1 lin. long. Disc distinctly lobed, 1/6 lin. high. Style strongly skittle-shaped above.
