Stems twining, young parts appressed-pilose, soon glabrous, pale fulvous or greyish. Leaves oblong or narrowly oblong to lanceolate, 10-16 by 2-4 cm, acutely attenuate to cuneate at the base, gradually attenuate towards the obtusish apex, in youth very sparsely pilose beneath with short, appressed hairs, afterwards glabrous; glabrous above; midrib and 3-4 nerves on either side rather flat above and beneath; nerves ascending at sharp angles; petiole 1-2½ cm, with some short, appressed hairs, or glabrous. Fruiting peduncles in the upper leaf-axils, 2-3 cm long, with some appressed hairs, glabrescent, cymosely branched at the apex, with divaricate branches and 3-5 fruits. Bracts linear or narrowly spathulate, obtuse, 20-25 mm long (these bracts not inserted at the base of the branches of the cyme, but at the base of the pedicels). Fruiting pedicels 2-4 mm long. Sepals equal in length, ca 6-7 mm long; three outer ones ovate, obtusish at the apex; two inner ones broadly ovate, obtuse to emarginate or irregularly dentate at the apex, all sparsely appressed-hairy in the middle portion, or glabrous. Fruit globose, ca 1 cm diam., red; seed 1, globose.
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