Scarlet red flowers. Tube 2 - 3 cm. Petals 4.9 - 11 x 4 - 5 mm. Trulliborne, apex acute. Leaves 12 - 16 x 4.5 - 6 cm. Leaves elliptic - narrow, obovate, acute, rounded cureate. Petiole short 3 - 4 mm. Stipule sheathing stem with a long (2 mm) keeled acicular point, 2 mm long. Inflorescence 3 cms to base of flowers.