Young branchlets slender, about 1 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, glabrous, finely lenticellate. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate to the subacute apex, obtuse or rounded at the base, 1 1/4–2 1/2 in. long, 2 1/2–7 lin. broad, thinly coriaceous, minutely and sparingly puberulous on the upper surface in a young state, soon becoming glabrous, margin not crispate; lateral nerves very oblique, running nearly parallel to the midrib; petiole 1 1/2–4 lin. long, not winged. Umbels solitary, 4–5-flowered or more; peduncle 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long; pedicels 1 3/4–2 lin. long; bract elliptic-cupular, truncate or rounded, broadly umbonate, umbo much flattened, horned above or not, dorsal margin 1/2– 5/8 lin. long, ventral margin 1/6– 1/5 lin. long. Receptacle 5/8 lin. long. Calyx patulous or spreading, 1/6– 1/4 lin. long, irregularly lobed; intramarginal ring present. Corolla about 11 1/2 lin. long, lower part much inflated, silvery grey, upper part narrower, clavate in bud, dark red; tube 5–5 1/2 lin. long, glandular inside, split unilaterally nearly to the base; lobes reflexed, narrowly spathulate, much broadened into the base, 6 1/2 lin. long, apical enlargement 1 1/2 lin. long, nearly 3/4 lin. broad. Filaments inserted 1 lin. above the base of the corolla-lobes, tapering upwards, 4 lin. long, tooth subulate, 1/2 lin. long; anthers narrowly oblong, 1 1/8 lin. long, connective hardly produced above the cells. Disc 3/8– 1/2 lin. high.
