Plant: Shrubs or suffrutescent herbs; to 1.5 m high Leaves: 3-4 per node, glabrous or velvety, 2-9 cm long, short- petiolate; blades ovate to lanceolate, the apices acuminate to long-attenuate, the margins scabrous; stipular sheath long cuspidate to multi-aristate. Flowers: few to many in cymes, villous outside with short coarse hairs; calyx lobes lanceolate to filiform, erect; corolla tube slender, widening toward throat, red, 15-32 mm long, the lobes ovate, 2-3 mm long; stamens mostly included, the anthers subsessile, 2.5-3 mm long; styles filiform, more or less exserted at maturity Fruit: a didymous-globose capsule, 5-7 mm broad, the calyx lobes persistent. SEEDS numerous, compressed-winged, brown Misc: Rocky slopes and canyon bottoms; pine-oak and juniper-oak woodlands; oak chaparral; granite sand; 750-2450 m (2500-8000 ft); May-Oct REFERENCES: Dempster, Lauramay T. 1995. Rubiaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Sci. 29(l): 29.