Family: Acanthaceae

Description: 

Climbing shrubs; stems 9-angled, subglabrous, pubescent at nodes. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate, or lanceolate, base rounded to cordate, margin undulate or remotely toothed, apex acuminate; palmately 3-5-veined. Racemes axillary or terminal, to 35 cm long, pendulous. Calyx ca. 2 mm, reduced to a minute rim. Corolla red; tube basally cylindrical for 5-6 mm, throat 1.5-1.5 cm; lobes suborbicular, ca. 7 mm in diam. Staminal filaments 1.2-1.5 cm, glabrous but with a tuft of trichomes at base. Capsule glabrous; seeds compressed, ovate in outline, verrucose.