Scandent, younger branches stellate-hirsute, older ones with longitudinal cork-ridges. Leaves elliptic-oblong, 8-12 by 3½-5½ cm, 5-7-nerved, obtuse to rounded, short-acuminate at the apex, obtuse at the base; glabrous, with sunken midrib and slightly prominent nerves and venation above; rather sparsely, along midrib densely stellate-hirsute, glabrescent, with prominent nerves and slightly prominent venation beneath. Petiole 6-10 mm. Inflorescences terminal, downward passing into axillary, 3-20, axillary ones-9 cm, 10-40-flowered. Pedicel 1½-4 mm. Sepals 1 & 2 orbicular, 2.4 by 2.4 mm, 4 & 5 transverse-oval, 2.4 by 3.2 mm, densely stellate-hirsute outside (hairs with 4-7 subequal, up to 150 µ long branches). Corolla 7½ mm, tube 2 mm; midpetaline field 4 by 2.2 mm, densely stellate-hirsute (hairs with unequal, up to 500 µ long branches); lobules 3 by 3.2 mm, with hardly visible venation, entire. Stamens inserted 0.7 mm above the corolla-base; filament 1 mm long, 0.6 mm broad at the base; anther 1.5 mm long, 0.8 mm broad, 0.7 ram thick, acuminate (sterile apex 0.6 mm) at the apex, cordate at the base. Ovary 1 by 1.2 mm, rather densely stellate-hirsute; stigma conical, with 10 rather distinct ridges. Fruit unknown.
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