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Stems usually very slender, under 0.5 mm. in diameter.. Flowers whitish, rather shining, 2.5–3 mm. long and 2.5 mm. broad, in loose umbellate clusters; pedicels about equalling the flowers.. Calyx-lobes sharply acute, often exceeding the corolla.. Corolla-lobes narrow and very acute, erect or reflexed.. Stamens about 1 mm. long.. Scales not present in any specimens seen from East Africa.. Styles slender, equalling or exceeding the ovary.. Capsule thin, depressed-globular; intrastylar opening small with a longitudinal groove from each end running down the capsule.
Corolla campanulate, becoming globular about the developing fruit; lobes narrow and very acute, erect or spreading and reflexed in old flowers, usually longer than the tube.
Capsule depressed-globose, irregularly splitting near the base; intrastylar opening small with a longitudinal groove from each end running down the capsule.
Flowers 2–3·5 mm. long on short pedicels, thin in texture, sometimes 4-merous, shining and yellowish when dry, often glandular.
Calyx campanulate-turbinate; lobes triangular-ovate, acuminate often exceeding and enclosing the corolla, erect to reflexed.
Twining parasite. No fringed scales in corolla tube. Styles 2, free to base; stigmas globose. Flowers yellowish.
Ovary globose, more or less depressed; styles slender, as long as or longer than the ovary, somewhat unequal.
Stamens shorter than the corolla lobes; filaments somewhat stout, as long or longer than anthers.
Stems usually very slender, under 0·5 mm. in diam.
Inflorescences rather loose umbellate clusters.
Seeds ovoid, about 1·5 m. long.
Scales absent.
