Succulent ?trailer; stems swollen at the nodes, nodular when dry, striate, with long white hairs particularly at nodes; tendrils absent on piece seen.. Leaves sessile, 3–7-foliolate; leaflets oblanceolate, 2–10.5 cm. long, 0.3–1.5 cm. wide, ± rounded in outline at apex but tipped with teeth, very narrowly attenuate at the base so as to appear pseudopetiolulate, conspicuously toothed, the teeth directed upwards, with long hairs on the venation, drying wrinkled.. Cymes 5–8 cm. wide; peduncles 5–8 cm. long; pedicels 3–4 mm. long; axes with gland-tipped hairs; bracts minute.. Buds yellow, oblong, 2 mm. long.. Calyx 1.5 mm. long.. Fruits red, subglobose, 8 mm. long, 7 mm. wide.. Seed ovoid, 6.5 mm. long, 5 mm. wide; main ventral ridge strong, mid-dorsal ridge obscure and wavy but ridges 2 and 3 strong, ± 8 scattered tubercles between; 2 short strong transverse ridges and 1–2 tubercles.
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