Shrub, much branched; young branches puberulous, soon becoming glabrous; bark reddish brown, turning grey, lenticellate. Leaves shortly petioled or subsessile, ovate to broadly ovate, 3-4-5 cm long and 2-2-5 cm broad, base obtuse, apex acuminate, glabrous; secondary nerves about 5 on each side, indistinct; petiole 1-4 mm long, often puberulous. Inflorescence terminal, often on short lateral branchlets, 1-3-flowered; bracts oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long, early deciduous; pedicels 4-6 mm long. Flowers tube maroon, lobes yellow. Calyx 5-6 mm long; sepals oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse to rounded, with 2 tooth-like glands at the base. Corolla minutely papillose without; tube subcylindric for 5-6 mm, then widening gradually to a funnel-shaped or subtubular portion 1 ? 4-1 • 6 cm long and 8-9 mm broad at the mouth; lobes long-linear, spreading, 4-5 cm long, minutely puberulous; throat scales short, linear-oblong, 3-3-5 mm long, puberulous. Stamens included; filaments 2 mm long, pubescent on the inner surface; anthers polliniferous in the upper half, lanceolate, 6-7 mm long, sagittate, acuminate, tapering into a subulate apiculus 1-5 mm long. Ovary of 2 free carpels, glabrous; style 5 mm long; stigma enclosed by the anthers, capitate, with a reflexed frill at the base. Fruit not seen.
