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male flowers 3–5 in small pedunculate axillary fascicles; peduncles 3–11 mm. long, slender; pedicels 2–10 mm. long. Receptacle-tube campanulate, 1·5–2 mm. long, lobes 0·7–1 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute. Petals 2·5–3·2 mm. long, yellow-green.
Female flowers solitary, subsessile; pedicel 1 mm. long; ovary 6–7 × 2–2·3 mm., ovoid, long-rostrate, densely hirtellous; receptacle-tube 1·5–2 mm. long, campanulate, lobes 0·8–1 mm. long, triangular-lanceolate; petals 3–4 mm. long.
Seeds 5·5–5·8 × 3–3·5 × 2·2–2·4 mm., asymmetrically ovate in outline, slightly verrucose, rounded at the base, compressed and slightly emarginate at the apex.
Fruit 16–20 × 7–10 mm., subsessile, ovoid, rostrate, shortly and densely hispid, red; pedicel 2–2·5 mm. long.
Stems to 6 m., prostrate or scandent, very sparsely shortly crispate-pubescent.
Petioles 0·8–1·2 cm. long, rather sparsely shortly finely ascending-hispid.
Flowers monoecious, male and female sometimes co-axillary.
