Agapetes variegata (Roxb.) G. Don var. macrantha (Hook. fil.) Airy Shaw, syn. A. macrantha Hook. fil. An erect shrub with narrow leaves and tubular pinkish or red flowers barred with red, with recurved green or white tips to the lobes, native of the Khasia Hills at 900–1500m, the Chittagong Hills and of S Burma in the Kola Mountains near Moulmein, probably growing as an epiphyte, flowering in March–April under glass. Shrub to 2m high; stems minutely hairy when young; leaves 8–12cm long, 2–2.8cm wide, narrowly elliptic, acute, not toothed. Pedicels red to pink. Calyx-lobes short, white, triangular. Flowers to 4.6cm long, in groups of 3–7, hanging from old branches. Min. 5°C.