Scandent shrub, laxly branched, up to 5 m. Branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves (narrow-) oblong to oblong-lanceolate, apex subcaudate-acuminate (3-4 cm), acute, base broadly acutely attenuate, basal glands ± indistinct, coriaceous, glabrous, very laxly glandular-punctate beneath, 20-30 by 4-6(-8) cm, entire or very remotely subcallose-denticulate or-crenulate, 5(-7)-plinerved from and from above the base, midrib and nerves faintly impressed above, prominent beneath, reticulation lax, slightly raised beneath only; petiole 5-10 by 2 mm. Fascicles c. 2-flowered, from defoliate axils. Pedicels robust, glabrous, c. 10 mm. Bracteoles basal, laxly pubescent. Calyx green, widely cup-shaped, laxly short-hairy, tube obconical, very base ± truncate, 3-4 mm, limb spreading, 2 mm, but very shallowly 5-lobed. Corolla cylindrical, fleshy or waxy white, 2.8-3.2 cm by c. 5 mm, papillose-puberulous, sometimes with some hairs at the deltoid, subacute lobes, c. 4 mm. Stamens 13-14 and 10-12 mm; major stamens: filaments 4-5 mm, appressedly fulvous-hirsutulous in the upper third as is the whole connective; cells elongate-oblong, base apiculate, c. 9 mm including the ± divergent, 2.5 mm long tubules; processes +-connate, up to 2 mm longer. Disk glabrous. Style white, slender, glabrous, c. 4 mm exserted.
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