Stems twining, 15-25 m high; branches terete, greyish brown, glabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to narrowly ovate-oblong, 7-14 by 3-5½ cm; rounded or shortly attenuate at the base; gradually attenuate towards the acutish apex, glabrous on both sides; midrib prominent beneath, nerves 6-7 on either side prominent beneath, curved; minor nervation indistinct; petiole 1.5-4.5 cm, glabrous. Peduncles straight or slightly curved, 2½-9 cm, glabrous, with 2-4, sometimes with more fruits at the apex. Fruiting pedicels up to 10 mm long, slightly angular or sulcate, thickened and often curved towards the apex. Sepals below the fruit broadly ovate-triangular or semi-orbicular, equal, ca 3-4 mm long, appressed-pilose outside, the reddish margins of sepals 3 and 4 excepted. Fruits often nodding, ellpsoid, up to 1.25 cm long (mature?), red; seed 1, ellpsoid.
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