Semi-erect shrub, tending to ramble, to c. 4 m high. Lvs glabrous, with 7-9 shortly petiolulate or subsessile leaflets. Leaflets 1.5-3 × 1.2-2 cm, ovate to broadly elliptic, glabrous, serrate; base cuneate, often obliquely so; apex acute, the terminal leaflet acuminate. Racemes usually many-flowered, puberulent; bracts linear-subulate, < pedicels. Calyx 3-6 mm long, puberulent; teeth acute, short. Corolla c. 5 cm long, orange-red, deep yellow inside tube; tube gradually curved and widening to the 2-lipped, obliquely positioned limb; lobes elliptic, ciliolate; upper lip emarginate. Style exserted. Capsule to 6 × 5 cm, slightly wider in upper 1/2.