Plants glabrous. Stems 4-5 dm. Leaf blades elliptic to ovate or oblong-spatulate, 3-10 cm, margins crenate or almost entire, apex obtuse or nearly acute. Cymes dense, compound, glabrous, not glandular. Pedicels 0.5-2 cm. Flowers fragrant; sepals ascending, triangular-lanceolate, 4-10 mm; corolla scarlet, cylindric, tube ca. 8 mm, lobes wide-spreading, ca. 4 mm. 2n = 34, 68.

Flowering year-round. Waste places; 0-50 m; introduced; Fla.; Indian Ocean Islands (Madagascar).