Dengaw

Herbaceous Height: 0.3 - 2m Leaves: Leaves opposite, simple or less frequently 3- to 5-pinnate (usually both simple and pinnate leaves on the same plant), in compound leaves the terminal leaflet the largest; blade of leaf or leaflets oblong, rounded at base and apex; coarsely crenate, glabrous, as much as 13 cm. long and 7 cm. broad, fleshy and obscurely nerved, capable of producing plantlets from the indentations of the leaf margin; petiole conspicuous, commonly 3-4 cm. long on older leaves, fleshy, glabrous, widened toward the base, exstipulate but with de- current interpetiolar lines on the subtending internode. Inflorescence a glabrous, terminal, thrice-compound panicle as much as 5 dm. long, the bracts and bractlets minute and caducous. Flowers: Flowers large and conspicuous, with pedicels mostly about 1 Cm. long; calyx broadly tubular, inflated, usually about 3 cm. long and 1 cm. broad, 4-lobed for one-fourth or one-fifth its length, greenish often tinged reddish; corolla tubular, 4-5 cm. long, mostly enclosed by the calyx, markedly constricted just above the ovary and thence ventricose, 4-lobed, the lobes triangular and acuminate, glabrous, reddish; stamens 8, inserted at the base of the corolla tube, the filaments almost as long as the corolla. Fruits: Long, abruptly acuminate, persistent in fruit.