glabrous; branches stout, greyish-brown, inconspicuously lenticellate; long-shoots ascending or patulous, slender, rather nodose, otherwise smooth, brown; short-shoots 1–5 lin. long, bearing 1 or 2 pairs of leaves, and terminated by an umbel; leaves opposite, sessile, coriaceous, faintly 3-nerved, nerves parallel; leaves of the long-shoots: upper ones linear-oblong, 1–1 3/4 in. long, 2 1/2–5 1/2 lin. broad, very obtuse at the apex, subcordate at the base; middle ones shorter, oblong or ovate-oblong; lower ones ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, rounded at the apex, cordate at the base; leaves of the short-shoots broadly ovate, cordate at the base, 4–12 lin. long, 4–8 lin. broad; umbels 2-flowered; peduncle 1 1/2–3 lin. long; pedicels stout, 2–3 lin. long; bract unilateral, broadly oblong or ovate-oblong, truncate, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long, thickly keeled, ciliate above; flowers pentamerous, polypetalous; receptacle obconical, 4–5 lin. long; calyx ascending, truncate, 1/2– 5/8 lin. long; corolla orange, strongly arcuate and clavate above in the bud; petals 1 3/4–2 in. long, claws inserted obliquely on the receptacle, about 4 lin. long, 1 3/4–2 1/2 lin. broad, with undulate margins, interlocking by means of about 4 pairs of oblique fleshy ridges which descend from the adnate portion of the filament, claw of the odd petal the narrowest, strongly curved outwards, lateral claws the broadest; limb subspathulate-linear, obtuse, twisted about the middle, upper part 1 1/8–1 1/4 lin. broad, middle part 5/8– 7/8 lin. broad, lower part gradually broadened into the base; filaments inserted at the apex of the claws, erect, curved in their upper part; anthers oblong-linear, over 4 lin. long, not divided transversely, connective truncate; style with a double bend shortly above the base, minutely pilose above; stigma depressed-capitate, 5/8– 3/4 lin. in diam. null
