A climbing shrub, 8–10 ft. high; young branches densely fulvo-tomentose, terete, spreading at wide angles in one plane. Leaves distichous, oblong or ovate-oblong, shortly acute or subacute, truncate or subcordate at the base, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 6–9 lin. broad, thinly coriaceous, hirsute on the midrib above and on the nerves below, ultimately glabrescent; secondary nerves about 6 on each side; veins obscure; petiole 1/2–1 lin. long. Cymes 3–5 lin. long, subsessile or shortly peduncled, densely pubescent; bracts very minute, ovate; pedicels up to 1 lin. long. Calyx finely pubescent, 3/4 lin. long; sepals roundish ovate, obtuse. Corolla yellow, funnel-shaped-campanulate, 1 3/4–2 1/2 lin. long, minutely pubescent outside, glabrous in the throat, Suprastaminal calli transversely oblong; lobes lanceolate-ovate, rather shorter than the tube. Staminal cone reaching to the middle of the tube; anthers 2/3 lin. long, glabrous on the back. Disc distinct. Carpels pubescent above the disc; style obconic from a cylindric base, sparingly papillose above; stigma campanulate with a subulate, bifid apiculus. Follicles subcylindric, obtuse, connate at the very base, spreading at right angles to each other, slightly curved outwards, 8–9 in. long, 2 1/2–3 lin. in diam., covered with brown woolly pubescence; placenta at length detached. Seeds linear, obtuse 7 1/2–9 lin. long, truncate at the apex with a reddish plume up to 1 3/4 in. long, flat or channelled on the ventral side, brown, smooth. Embryo straight, radicle cylindric, cotyledons very narrow, acute; albumen fleshy, copious.
