Liana, up to 50 m by 10 cm, young branches stellate-hirsute, older ones rather smooth with few to many orbicular lenticels. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to oblong, ca 6-15 by 2½-7 cm, 4-6(-7)-nerved; acuminate at the apex, obtuse to rounded at the base; glabrous, with slightly sunken midrib, nerves, and major venation, usually indistinct minor venation above; glabrous, with slightly sunken to slightly prominent nerves and distinctly sunken venation beneath; margin slightly recurved. Petiole 5-8 mm. Inflorescences axillary, 1-4 cm, (1-)2-5(-10)-flowered. Flowers very fragrant. Pedicel 1 mm. Sepals 1 & 2 about orbicular to transverse-oval, 2-2.3 by 2.5-2.8 mm, 4 & 5 transverse-oval, 2-2.5 by 3-3.5 mm, densely stellate-hirsute outside (hairs with 5-11 subequal, up to 300 µ long branches, pale brown when dry). Corolla light or bright yellow, 7-8½ mm, tube 2-2½ mm; midpetaline field 3.3-4 by 2.3-2.4 mm, lower part stellate-hirsute (hairs with 5-10 sub-equal, up to ca 250 µ long branches), upper part appressed-hairy (hairs with 4-8 branches, one distinctly longer and stronger, up to 750 µ long); lobules 3-4 by 2.8-3.5 mm, entire, coherent above the midpetaline field for 1½ mm. Stamens inserted 0.7-0.8 mm above the corolla-base; filament 0.6-0.7 mm long, 0.5-0.7 mm broad at base; anther 0.8-1 mm long, 0.6-0.8 mm broad, 0.4 mm thick, acuminate (sterile acumen 0.2 mm) at the apex, slightly cordate at the base. Ovary 1 by 1-1.3 mm, glabrous or shortly hirsute at the extreme apex; stigma conical, with 10 ridges. Fruit ellipsoid or obpyriform with rounded apex and base, 24 by 17 mm, with scurfy surface. Cotyledons plain.
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