A large, woody climber with almost glabrous, sharply 4-angled pendant twigs. Leaves with 1-5 cm long petiole or uppermost sessile; lamina thick, ovate to broadly ovate, (6-) 8-15 (-18) x 5-12 cm, 3-5-costate from hastate, truncate-cordate base, ± glaucous beneath, margins entire in upper half, sinuate-dentate to shallowly lobed in the basal half, flowers scarlet-red with orange-yellow centre, 2.5-3 cm long, in terminal and axillary, up to 30 cm long, dulous racemes; bracts ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 1-3.5 cm long, acute-acuminate; bracteoles ovate, nearly as long as bracts, enclosing the corolla Calyx minutely 12-toothed. Corolla tube c. 2-2.5 cm long, lobes 5-6 long, obtuse, reflexed. Anthers of anterior stamens with a single spur or n those of posterior 2-spurred. Capsule ± orbicular, 2.5-3.5 cm long, puberlous, with ensiform, c. 2.5 cm long beak.

Fl. Per.: December-March.

Type: Nepal, Wallich s.n. (K).

Distribution: W. China, Nepal, India eastwards to Burma, Indo-China and Java.

Cultivated for its beautiful pendant scarlet red flowers in Lahore and elsewhere.