vegetative parts glabrous; branches 1 1/2–2 lin. in diam. 1 ft. below the apex, the younger ones brown, much wrinkled in a dried state, the older greyish-brown, conspicuously lenticellate; branchlets rather slender, smooth, pale green, often turning black on drying; internodes 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long; leaves opposite or subopposite, conspicuously petioled, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1–3 in. long, 2/3–1 3/4 in. broad, obtuse or rounded at the apex, obtuse or subcuneate at the base, coriaceous, dull, penninerved, nerves irregular, patulous or rather oblique, more or less raised on both surfaces in a dried state or hardly visible; petiole 3–10 lin. long; umbels borne on the branchlets, axillary, solitary, 6–10-flowered; peduncle 1 1/2–4 lin. long, like the pedicels, bracts, receptacle and calyx minutely and densely pilose with rusty hairs; pedicels 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, rather oblique at the apex; bract unilaterally developed from a saucer-shaped or platter-shaped base, ovate or oblong, 5/8– 7/8 lin. long, slightly thickened on the back; flowers pentamerous, expanding as in L. kraussianus; receptacle and calyx together campanulate, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long; calyx shortly 5-toothed or repand, 1/3– 1/2 lin. long including the teeth and the intramarginal ring, which is 1/12– 1/8 lin. high; corolla orange, 1 1/2–2 in. long, basal swelling oblong-ovoid or ellipsoid, 2–3 1/2 lin. long, apical swelling oblong, 2 1/2 lin. long, pentagonal, 5-ribbed; tube constricted for about 1 lin. above the basal swelling, then broadened upwards to the middle and again narrowed to the base of the apical swelling; lobes erect, spathulate-linear, 4–5 1/2 lin. long, lower part soft, distinctly ribbed outside, upper part with a hard inner layer, 2–2 1/2 lin. long, narrowly boat-shaped as seen from the side, keeled; filaments inserted at the base of the corolla-lobes, deflexed or inflexed, produced in front of the anther into a tooth 1/8– 1/6 lin. long, 2 1/2–3 lin. long excluding the tooth; anthers oblong-linear, 1 3/8–1 1/2 lin. long; disc 1/6– 1/4 lin. high, hardly lobed; style skittle-shaped above, thickened part 2 1/2–3 lin. long; stigma subglobose, 3/8 lin. in diam.; berry obovoid, 3 1/2–4 lin. long. null
