Coccinia senensis Cogn.

Perennial climber to 2 m.; stems herbaceous, ridged, with scattered stiff white hairs, becoming conspicuously white-dotted on ridges when older.. Leaf-blade broadly ovate-cordate in outline, entire or sinuate-toothed, ± scabrid-hairy or scabrid-punctate above, scabrid with short broad-based hairs on the nerves beneath, 54–162 mm. long, 45–190 mm. broad, palmately often deeply 3–5-lobed; lobes triangular or ovate to elliptic or linear-lanceolate, often ± toothed or lobulate, broadest or usually narrowed towards the base, acute to rounded and apiculate, with the central largest; petiole 5–50 mm. long, usually rather short, spreading-hairy with rather scabrid broad-based hairs.. Tendrils simple.. Probracts oblanceolate, acute, with incurved margins, ± 4 mm. long and 2 mm. broad.. Male flowers in short sessile or pedunculate 2–6-flowered racemes, often with a coaxillary solitary flower, occasionally the flowers solitary or paired; peduncle 0–48 mm. long; pedicels 5–25 mm. long; receptacle-tube broadly campanulate, 4–5 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, 3–4 mm. long; corolla campanulate, apricot-orange, green-veined outside, with the lobes 11–13 mm. long, 4.5–10 mm. broad, united in lower half; stamens 3.. Female flowers solitary, on 9–15 mm. long stalks; ovary bright green with deeper green slight ridges, 10–11 mm. long, 1.5–2.5 mm. across; receptacle-tube broadly campanulate, 2–3 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long; corolla-lobes ± 8–10 mm. long and 4 mm. broad, united in lower half.. Fruit on an 11–30 mm. long stalk, cherry-red, ovoid-ellipsoid, rounded at the ends, smooth, 30–39 mm. long, 15–18 mm. across.