Yellowish to reddish-brown fleshy herb, up to 15 cm tall. Peduncle 2-10 cm long. Calyx 3-5 cm long, pinkish to whitish. Corolla 6-7.5 cm long, c. 5 cm wide at the mouth, yellowish to white with violet or bluish lobes, crenate or erose at the margins; tube about as long as the calyx. Capsule ovoid, c. 2 cm in diameter, apiculate with a persistent style-base; seeds very small, brownish.

Type: “Habitat in Bengala, infra gramina altiora, praecipue varias species Bambusae, eorum raddicum parasitica (?) Viget, floret fructificatque subpluviis.".

Distribution: Himalayas, India, Malaysia to Indonesia and Cambodia.

Except the only record, cited above, this has never been collected again from the area. The record needs confirmation

A taller species with slender, naked scapes, purple flowers and multi-fid placentae, Aeginetia indica Roxb., has been collected by Drummond [Drummond 26279 (E)] from Punjab.