Scandent shrub or liana, younger branches densely strigose, older ones with longitudinal cork-ridges and rather many oval lenticels. Leaves subcoriaceous, ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 4½-13 by 2-6 ½ cm, 4-7-nerved; rounded to acute, usually more or less acuminate at the apex, obtuse to rounded at the base; glabrous, with slightly sunken midrib and slightly prominent nerves and venation above; glabrous, with distinctly prominent nerves and slightly prominent to indistinct venation beneath. Petiole 8-12 mm. Inflorescences axillary, ½-3 cm, (1-)2-14-flowered. Pedicel l ½-4 mm. Sepals 1 & 2 broadly ovate, 2-3 by 2½-3 mm, 4 & 5 transverse-oval, 2½ by 3 mm; shortly strigose outside (hairs with 2 branches, up to 600 µ total length). Corolla cream-coloured, 8-9 mm, tube 2½-3⅓ mm; midpetaline field 2.7-3.8 by 1.7-2 mm, densely ap-pressed-hairy (hairs with (2-)3(-4) up to 800 µ long branches); lobules 3.5-4 by 2.7-4 mm, rather thick, with not or only faintly visible venation, entire. Stamens inserted 0.5-0.8 mm above the corolla-base; filament 0.6-0.9 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm broad at the base; anther 1.1-1.3 mm long, 0.6 mm broad, 0.3-0.4 mm thick, acuminate (sterile acumen 0.5-0.6 mm) at the apex, cordate at the base. Ovary 0.8-1.2 by 0.8-1.1 mm, glabrous; stigma conical, somewhat warty, with 5 distinct ridges. Fruit ellipsoid, 22 by 14 mm, glabrous, smooth. Cotyledons plain.
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