Scandent shrub, younger branches strigose, older ones with longitudinal cork-ridges. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, 7-20 by 3½-10 cm, 6-10-nerved; obtuse to rounded, often short-acuminate at the apex, obtuse to rounded at the base; glabrous on both sides; with slightly sunken midrib and slightly prominent nerves above; with prominent nerves and venation beneath. Petiole 8-14 mm. Inflorescences axillary, up to 1½ cm, up to 10-flowered. Flowers known only from buds. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Sepals 1 & 2 broad-ovate, 2.7 by 3 mm, 4 & 5 transverse-oval, distinctly retuse at apex, 2.5 by 3.2 mm; rather densely strigose outside (hairs 2-branched, up to 400 µ total length). Corolla 7½ mm, tube 2½ mm; midpetaline field 3½ by ca 2 mm, densely hirsute (hairs (2-)3(-4)-branched, up to 500 µ total length); lobules 2 by 2 mm, rather thick, without distinct venation. Stamens inserted 0.7 mm above the corolla-base; filament 1.3 mm long, 0.5 mm broad at base; anther 0.7 mm long, 0.7 mm broad, 0.5 mm thick, truncate at apex and base. Ovary 2.8 by 1.7 mm, glabrous; stigma funnel-shaped, not sharply separated from the ovary, 5-lobed at the margin, the lobes decurrent as longitudinal ridges on the ovary. Fruits 1 or 2 together, axillary, on strongly thickened, up to 1½ cm long, 3-5 mm thick stalk which is partly pedicel, partly peduncle; fruit ovoid, 45 by 22 mm, acutish at the apex, rounded at the base, probably little fleshy. Cotyledons strongly folded.
At 350 m altitude; fl.--03, fr. March, July, and Aug.
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