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Upper surface glossy, glabrous, midrib raised or level, secondary and tertiary veins faintly raised or impressed to give a finely “cracked” appearance; lower surface completely glabrous or with the midrib hispidulous, a similar indumentum often found also on the lamina near its base, midrib raised, lateral and tertiary nerves raised or impressed.
Leaves membranous or thinly coriaceous, not strongly discolorous; petiole 2–5 mm. long, glabrous or hispidulous; lamina 4·5–6·8 X 1·4–2·7 mm., ovate, oblong or narrowly elliptic, tapering at apex to a long distinct acumen, base rounded to acute.
Corolla tube 15–18 mm. long, slender, swollen near apex at level of stamens, glabrous, not constricted at the mouth; corolla lobes ± equalling tube, narrowly linear, glabrous.
Anthers c. 2 mm. long, subsessile, inserted near the top of the corolla tube so that they reach to within 1 mm. of its mouth.
Calyx 2–3 mm. long, lobes united at base, ovate-acuminate, ciliate, dorsally glabrous or puberulent.
Flowers white, scented, in lax terminal 1–4-flowered cymes with axes glabrous or hispidulous.
Fruit globose, c. 2 cm. in diameter, yellow or orange with spots when ripe, edible.
Ovary narrowly conical, c. 2 mm. long, passing imperceptibly into the long style.
Rhizomatous scrambling shrub or climber attaining 3 m.
Young shoots glabrous or hispidulous.
Stigma reaching to base of anthers.
Seeds 6–7·5 mm. long.
Gynoecium glabrous.
Tendrils common.
