Gnetum arboreum Foxw.

Twigs conspicuously lenticellate. Leaves obovate-cuneate, small, up to 8 cm long, long-petiolate, leathery, brown when dry; secondary nerves 4-5 pairs, joining, tertiary ones distinct, reticulate. ♂ Inflorescences short, once branched; spikes 1-1½ cm long, 3 mm broad. ♂ Flowers few, scarcely 1 mm long; sporophyll 2½ mm long, thick. Sterile ♀ flowers about 8, narrow, their inner envelop not split. ♀ Inflorescences unknown. Fruit-bearing axis 4 cm long; collars 5 mm spaced. Fruit broad-elliptic, tipped, 2½ cm long, not shining, stalk 2 cm long, outer envelop fleshy but thin.