Neuropeltis racemosa Wall.

A large woody twiner. Young branches more or less tomentellous with rusty brown hairs, the adult ones glabrous. Leaves elliptic or narrow-elliptic, sometimes elliptic-oblong, 6-12 by 2-7 cm, acute at the base or shortly attenuate into the petiole, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, with a blunt, mucronulate top, coriaceous, glabrous above and beneath, or with a few scattered appressed hairs; lateral nerves 7-10 on either side of the midrib, finer reticulate nervation distinctly visible above; petiole ca 10-15 mm long or slightly longer. Inflorescences from the leaf-axils or from defoliate branches, racemose, solitary or 2-4 together, brown-tomentose, shorter than the leaves, 3-6 cm long or slightly longer; pedicels 2-2½ mm. Bract immediately below the sepals, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, with a distinct mucro, 2-3 mm long, in fruit broad-elliptic to orbicular, slightly emarginate and mucronulate at the apex, slightly emarginate or obtuse at the base, glabrous, except along the pedicel and sometimes along the nerves, 3-4½(-6) cm long. Two outer sepals orbicular or slightly broader than long, 2-2.25 mm long, three inner ones broader than long, 1¾-2 mm long. Corolla broadly campanulate, ca 5 mm long, deeply 5-lobed, lobes longer than the tube, with incurved, obtuse top, pilose outside. Ovary ovate; stigmas ca 1 mm broad. Capsule subglo-bose, ca 3.5-5 mm high.