a rambling glabrous shrub; branches trailing on other shrubs, sometimes running high up, olive-green, densely lenticellate; leaves in whorls of 3–4, rarely the uppermost opposite, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, acute, rarely acutely acuminate, long attenuate at the base, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/2–1 in. broad, coriaceous, glossy above; secondary nerves about 10–16 on each side, very faint or like the veins obscure; petiole 2–3 lin. long; cymes terminal or pseudo-axillary, shortly peduncled, few- to 12-flowered, corymbiform; bracts lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, 3– 1/2 lin. long, usually deciduous; pedicels up to 1/2 in. long; calyx 3–5 lin. long; sepals lanceolate to linear, narrow, acuminate, sometimes recurved; corolla cream-coloured to yellow or orange, spotted with red; infra-staminal part of the tube 2 lin. long, supra-staminal part funnel-shaped-campanulate, 4 lin. long; lobes attenuate from a somewhat broader base into linear spreading tails from less than 1–1 1/2 in. long; throat-scales linear-subulate, up to 1 lin. long; anthers covered with silky hairs above the middle; follicles very slender, lanceolate, long acuminate, about 6 in. long, 1/2 in. in diam., terete, tips somewhat thickened; seeds oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 6 lin. long, 2 lin. wide, pale reddish-brown, with a sessile plume, hairs 1 1/2 in. long on a very fine awn up to 1/2 in. long; cotyledons oblong, flat, thin. null
