Lianas, rather stout, glabrous. Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic, shortly acu-minate, obtuse to ? rounded basally, to 17 cm long and 9 cm wide, glabrous, subcoriaceous; petioles stout, ca. 1-2 cm long, with 2-3 large stipule-like glands in the axils. Inflorescences aggregate dichasial, axillary and alternate, several-to many-flowered, the primary peduncle 2-3 cm long. Flowers with the pedicels 4-8 mm long; bracteole 1(?), narrow-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, variously placed; calyx-lobes ? equal, narrowly lanceolate, ca. 3 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, the squamella thin, lacerate marginally; corolla green to white, the tube ca. 6 mm long, pubescent within at the level of stamen attachment, the lobes ? lanceo-late, 13-16 mm long; stamens attached about midway on the corolla tube, ca. 3 mm long; nectaries separate, almost as high as the ovary. Follicles slender, 7-8 cm long; mature seeds unknown.
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