Shrub;  stems terete, striate, glabrous, brownish.  Leaves thick-coriaceous, lanceolate, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 9-18 x 2-4 cm, basally cuneate-attenuate, apically acute, entire and strongly revolute at margins, glabrous;  pinnately veined, midrib and lateral nerves (3-5 per side) impressed above and prominent beneath, reticulate veinlets nearly plane on both surfaces;  petiole rugose, 6-10 mm long, glabrous, narrowly winged.  Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 10-20-flowered, glabrous in all parts;  rachis subterete, 2-8 cm long;  pedicels rugose, 18-40 mm long;  floral bract oblong, ca. 3 mm long;  bracteoles located below the middle, acute.  Flowers with calyx 6-9 mm long;  hypanthium strongly rugose, short-cylindric, 3-4 mm long and ca. 5 mm diam.;  limb spreading, 3-5 mm long;  lobes ovate-apiculate, 1-1.5 mm long;  corolla coriaceous-carnose, broadly conical, ventricose below, 8-12 mm long and ca. 7 mm in diam., the lobes erect, thick-carnose, 1.5-2 mm long;  stamens 10, 6.5-8.5 mm long;  filaments connate at base, glabrous to slightly puberulous dorsally near apex, ca. 2.5 mm long;  connectives 2-spurred, the spurs rounded and alternately larger;  thecae stout, 3.5-5 mm long;  tubules narowly cylindric, 2.5-3 mm long, dehiscing by clefts nearly their entire length;  style stout, nearly as long as corolla;  stigma truncate.  Berry subspherical, to 12 mm diam.

    Distribution.  Endemic to Colombia.