Adenocalymma Mart. ex Meisn.

Lianas; stems with 4 phloem arms in cross section; branchlets terete, without interpetiolar glandular fields, pseudostipules small, more or less subulate, not foliaceous. Leaves 3-foliolate, the terminal leaflet often replaced by a simple tendril. Inflorescence a narrow axillary or terminal bracteate raceme, each bud subtended by a caducous glandular bract. Flowers with the calyx cupular, bila-biate to more or less truncate, usually with conspicuous plate-shaped glands in upper part; corolla yellow, tubular-infundibuliform to tubular-campanulate, usu-ally pubescent outside; anthers glabrous, the thecae straight, divaricate or some-what divergent; pollen ecolpate, the exine alveolate; ovary narrowly cylindrical, lepidote or puberulent, the ovules 2-seriate in each locule; disc pulvinate. Fruit an oblong capsule, the valves parallel to the septum, only slightly compressed, woody, usually with more or less raised lenticels, the median nerve not conspicu-