Liana up to 20 m. Leaves thinly-coriaceous, brownish when dry, entire, ovate to ovate-elliptic, top acute, 1-1½ cm acuminate, base cordate to broadly rounded, 6-14 by 3½-11 cm, 3(-5)-pli-nerved and with 1(-2) pair(s) of strong nerves from near the base of the midrib, arching towards the top; petiole (1½-)2-6 cm. Glands at blade-base 2, elliptic to reniform, 2-4 mm long, mainly on two auricles at the apex of the petiole but extending on the blade to or beyond the insertion of the basal nerves; blade-glands 0; marginal glands minute, 0-5 at either side of the blade. Inflorescences peduncled for 2-12 cm, in ♂ up to 30-flowered, in ♀ 2-5-flowered; tendrils l(-3), ½-3 cm. Sterile tendrils up to 15 cm. Bracts and bracteoles elongate triangular, acute, ½-1 mm. ♂ Flowers urceolate, including the 1-1½ mm long stipe 7-9 by 4(-5) mm. Hypanthium including calyx tube urceolate, fleshy, 4-5 mm. Calyx lobes elongate triangular, subobtuse, 2-2½ mm, reflexed in an-thesis. Petals oblong-lanceolate, subobtuse, c. 3 mm, inserted near the throat of the calyx tube. Filaments 1-1¼ mm, free, inserted at the base of the hypanthium. Anthers 3-4 mm, acute, 0.1-0.3 mm apiculate. Septa 0. Corona 0. Disk glands c. 1 mm. ♀ Flowers not known. Fruit 1-2, globose, excluding the 20-30 mm long gynophore 3½-4 by 3½-4 cm; pericarp woody, (2-)3 mm. Seeds c. 15, suborbicular, 8-10 by 8-9 by 2-2½ mm, pitted; embryo 7-8 mm; cotyledons ovate, deeply emargi-nate at one side, c. 7½ by 7 mm.
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