stem shrubby, branching; branches erect or ascending-spreading, occasionally twining, 3/4–1 1/4 lin. thick, whitish from a very dense tomentum of minute hairs; leaves spreading, coriaceous, puberulous; petiole 1–2 lin. long; blade 6–10 lin. long, 1/2–1 1/2 lin. broad, linear, slightly hastate-auriculate at the base, obtuse or acute, revolute at the margins; cymes subaxillary, subsessile, 3–6-flowered; pedicels about 1 1/2 lin. long, whitish-tomentose; sepals 2–2 1/2 lin. long, scarcely 1/2 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, whitish-tomentose, erect, applied to the corolla, sometimes recurved in the upper part; corolla tubular, 5-angled, minutely puberulous outside; tube 3 lin. long, with 5 tufts of deflexed fulvous hairs near the base inside; lobes spirally connivent-erect, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, 1/3 lin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute, channelled down the face, minutely ciliate on one margin, puberulous inside, green, margined with red; corona-tubercles none; staminal column 1 3/4 lin. long, 5-sparred just below the middle; follicle solitary (always?), 2–2 1/2 in. long, about 2 1/2 lin. thick, narrowly fusiform, tapering to a long acute point and to an acute base, glabrous; seeds 2 1/2–3 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad, ovate, flattish or plano-convex, minutely tuberculate on both sides. null
