Vines, the stems angular, obtusely winged, glandular shiny, glabrescent, often with a few regularly arranged, retrorse, stumpy hairs. Leaves sessile, 4 per node, ovate oblong, to 5 mm long, acute, the lateral veins not evident or scarcely visible, subcoriaceous, glandular shiny above and presumably beneath, with sev-eral golden brown glands beneath. Inflorescences terminal, 1-2-flowered, to 1 cm long. Flowers not seen. Fruits subrotund, to 4 mm in diam., glabrous, drying black, obviously pedicellate.