Jacquemontia pentantha (Jacq.) G.Don

A glabrous or sparsely hairy twiner. Leaves ovate to broad-ovate, 2½-9 by 2-7 cm, cordate to truncate at the base, acuminate at the apex; petiole 1½-4 cm. Peduncles long and slender. Flowers in a few-to many-flowered umbelliform cyme. Bracts much longer than in J. paniculata, linear, lower ones 5-10 mm. Two outer sepals ovate, 7-10 mm long, long-acuminate; third sepal oblique, semi-ovate; two inner sepals much shorter, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla blue or blue-purple, white at the base, rarely entirely white, mostly larger than in J. paniculata, 1½-2 cm long, limb ca 2 cm broad. Stigmas elliptic.