a handsome undershrub, erect, loosely branched, quite glabrous or nearly so except the puberulous inflorescence, 2–3 ft. high, woody below, subherbaceous above; branches rather thick, smooth, quadrangular, very narrowly 4-winged by the decurrence of the petioles; leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or scarcely acute, subtruncate or subcordate or somewhat narrowed at the base, thinly coriaceous or thickly chartaceous, crenulate-serrulate, 1–5 in. long, 1/2–2 1/2 in. broad; petioles deeply channelled above, clasping, narrowly decurrent, the longer shortly biauriculate at the base, 1/3–2 1/2 in. long; inflorescence terminal, pyramidal, loosely cymose, compound, secund, drooping, 1/2–1 1/2 ft. long, bracteate; ultimate pedicels 1/2–1 in. long, recurved at the apex; calyx-segments ovate or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, glabrous, about 1/4 in. long; corolla deep scarlet, about 1 1/2 in. long, subglabrous, smooth; tube contracted shortly above the ovary, elongated, incurved, gradually and moderately dilated above, very oblique at the apex; lobes ovate-rounded, about 1/8– 1/5 in. long; stamens and style shortly exserted; capsule ovoid, 2/5– 2/3 in. long, 1/4– 3/8 in. thick, oblique, bisulcate, smooth, glaucous; pericarp thin. null
