Shrub;  stems angular to terete, cinereous, densely pubescent with pale spreading haris to 0.3 mm long.  Leaves thick coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, sometimes falcate, 10-22 x 3-7 cm, basally cuneate or truncate, apically acute or acuminate, marginally entire and slightly revolute;  5-7-plinerved or pinnate-veined with the lateral nerves oriented in the basal half, the lateral nerves (3-4 per side) ascending and with the midrib impressed above and prominent beneath, reticulate veinlets nearly plane on both sides, essentially glabrous above, puberulous beneath when young, glabrate;  petioles subcylindric, rugose, 5-15 mm long, pubescent, glabrate.  Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 8-20-flowered;  rachis subterete, thick, 2-8 cm long, pubescent when young, glabrescent;  pedicels subterete, 20-40 mm long, densely puberulous or subglabrous (hairs probably glandular fimbriae);  floral bracts deciduous;  bracteoles basal, triangular, acute, ca. 2 mm long.  Flowers with calyx 8-12 mm long;  hypanthium short-cylindric or subspherical, pilose, 4-6 mm long and 5-6 mm diam.;  limb spreading, 4-6 mm long;  lobes 4 or 5 (rarely 3), often in a state of fusion, ovate, apiculate, 2-4 x 5-6 mm;  corolla subcylindric, carnose, 20-28 mm long and ca. 7 mm diam., the lobes triangular, acute, 3-4 mm long, reflexed at antheis;  stamens 12-14 mm long;  filaments distinct, 4-6 mm long, distally pilose at margins;  connectives alternately 2-spurred (spurs acute, ca. 1.3 mm across), the alternate connectives slightly broader;  thecae 7-8.5 mm long;  tubules elongate-conical, 3-4 mm long;  style exserted;  stigma truncate.  Berry subspherical, glabrous, to 15 mm diam.

    Distribution.  Endemic to Colombia.