Climbers, the stems glabrous. Leaves 1-9 cm long, ovate to deeply pinnatisect with 9-19 alternate or opposite pairs of linear lobes, glabrous. Flowers solitary or in 2-5-flowered cymes. Sepals elliptic to oblong, 4-7 mm long, obtuse apically, with a 0.25-0.75 mm long mucrone, glabrous. Corolla red, 2-3 cm long, salverform. Fruit capsular, ovoid, 6-8 mm long. Seeds dark brown to black, with dark patches of short trichomes scattered somewhat irregularly.

Fl. Per.: August to October.

Type: India (LINN, 219.1, microfiche!).

C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Mangla, E. Nasir & M.A. Siddiqi 1484 (RAW), G-4 Sind: Karachi, March 1967, Saida Qureshi s.n. (KUH).

Distribution: Undoubtedly originally from the Americas and probably Mexico, now cultivated and naturalized in most of the tropical countries.