Scandent shrubs, often in treetops, the branches glabrous, smooth, often drying white. Leaves elliptic, 6.5-13.0 cm long, 2.5-6.0 cm wide, acute at the apex, acuminate, the acumen to 1 cm long, apiculate, the apiculum ca. 1 mm long, attenuate acute at the base, the costa prominulous beneath, the lateral veins ca. 6, alternate, strongly arcuate, papyraceous, glabrate above, the hairs short, white, deciduous, beneath ciliolate, the veins appressed pilose, with the shorter hairs seriately disposed, densely barbate in the axils of the veins; petioles 0.7-2.0 cm long, appressed subhirsute; stipules triangular or subulate, to 1 cm long, ca. 0.35 cm wide at the base, elongate acuminate, smooth, glabrate, diffusely pilose. Inflorescences axillary, cymose paniculate, to 9 cm long, ca. 6 cm wide, the peduncles 4-7 cm long, ca. 0.15 cm wide, stiff, ascending, 1-7 cm long, the cymules few flowered; bracts and bracteoles linear subulate, to 3 mm long, gla-brate, the bracteoles of the pedicels several, aggregated at the end of the pedicel. Flowers not seen. Fruits sessile or pedicellate, the pedicels to 2 mm long, elliptic, ca. 1 cm long, to 0.6 cm wide, obtuse, the persistent lobes of the calyx 4, erect, linear subulate or linear ligulate, the 2 shorter 2-3 mm long, the 2 longer 5-6 mm long, the exocarp carnose, densely appressed pilose.
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