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Leaves opposite; lamina up to 7 x 3·5 cm., papyraceous, elliptic or broadly elliptic, rather sparsely pubescent to pilose on the principal nerves on both surfaces and sparsely pilose on the areolae below, densely ciliate on the margin, rather inconspicuously lepidote, apex acuminate and slightly mucronate, base rounded; lateral nerves 5–6 pairs; petiole up to 1·5 cm. long.
Fruit greenish-yellow sometimes with red wings, up to 2·5 x 2·7 cm., subcircular in outline, glutinous, ± glabrous (except for scales), rather inconspicuously lepidote, apical peg very short (up to 0·5 mm. long) or absent, wings c. 10 mm. broad, stipe up to 7 mm. long.
Lower receptacle 1–2 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so; upper receptacle c. 1·5 x 2 mm., broadly campanulate, sparsely and rather inconspicuously lepidote otherwise glabrous or nearly so.
Deciduous slender-stemmed climber or scrambling shrub; branchlets tomentose at first, soon glabrescent.
Stamen-filaments 5 mm. long, inserted at or near the margin of the disk; anthers 0·5–0·6 mm. long.
Inflorescences of unbranched axillary spikes up to 3 cm. long; rhachis pubescent; bracts caducous.
Scales 50–90(100)µ in diam., usually 8-celled with additional tangential and/or radial walls.
Petals 1 x 1 mm., subcircular, ciliate at the apex, shortly unguiculate.
Disk c. 1 mm. in diam. with short free pilose margin.
Style 3–4 mm. long, not expanded at the apex.
Sepals scarcely developed.
Flowers sessile, yellow.
Seedlings unknown.
