Perennials with trailing leafy stems, root­ing at the lower nodes, turning upwards, up to 0,8 m tall. Leaves alternate, spreading, ob­long, c. 100 x 15-20 mm, apex long acumi­nate, base narrowed into a sheath, margin purple or red. Inflorescences in axils of upper­most leaves, sessile, contracted, piercing leaf-sheaths, the 4-6 flowers appearing consecu­tively in 2 rows. Sepals 3, free, resembling hairy bracts, c. 8 mm long. Corolla with a narrow tube c. 15 mm long, lobes patent, broadly ovate, c. 16 mm long, deep purple. Stamens 6, inserted on corolla-throat, fila­ments densely bearded above with long, beaded hairs; anthers basifixed with locules curved around discoid connective. Ovary slightly hairy above, 3-locular, with 1-2 ovules in each cell; style just exserted, fili­form, stigma shallowly cup-shaped with 3 erect, small papillate lobes. Capsule obovate-trigonous, 5-7 mm long, rostrate, hairy; seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 4x1 mm. Fig. 12.