Scandent shrub (rarely tree?), up to 30 m long, 15 cm diam., younger branches stellate-hirsute, older ones with longitudinal ridges, often together with small lenticels. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic to oblong, ovate-oblong, or obovate-oblong, 7-14 by 2½-8 cm, 5-8-nerved; acuminate at the apex, acute to obtuse or rounded at the base; glabrous, with slightly to faintly prominent midrib, nerves, and venation above; glabrous (or sparsely stellate-hirsute near petiole, glabrescent), with distinctly prominent nerves and distinct, but usually hardly raised venation beneath. Petiole 7-14 mm. Inflorescences axillary, sometimes 2 or 3 together, up to 3½ cm, (1-)3-±10-flowered. Pedicel (2-)3-6(-7) mm, distinctly thickened in fruit. Sepals 1 & 2 broad-ovate or triangular-ovate, 2-3 by 2-3 mm, 4 & 5 transverse-oval, 2-2.8 by 2.7-4 mm, densely stellate-hirsute outside (hairs with 2-3, generally more or less curled, up to 600 µ long branches). Corolla white, 7 mm, tube 1½-2½ mm; midpetaline field 3½-4 by 2-2½ mm, densely stellate-hirsute (hairs with 2-5 branches, in the larger hairs generally one longer, up to 600 µ long branch); lobules 2-2.8 by 2-2.5 mm, without distinct venation, entire or slightly crenulate, coherent above midpetaline field for ½-1 mm. Stamens inserted 1-1½ mm above the corolla-base; anther sessile, 0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm broad, 0.5 mm thick, slightly retuse at apex and base. Ovary 1½-2 by 1-1½ mm, glabrous; stigma conical, with 10 more or less distinct ridges. Fruit probably little fleshy, obpyriform, 3½ by 2 cm, scurfy outside, greyish brown when dry. Cotyledons strongly folded.
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