Plants slender, climbing, glabrous and very glaucous throughout. Leaves long-petiolate, simple, entire, suborbicular, about 1.5-4 cm. long and 1.5-3.0 cm. broad, very pale beneath, darker above; petioles very slender, about 1-2 cm. long, bearing 2 rather inconspicuous foveate glands at the juncture with the leaf blade; stipules setose, very inconspicuous. Inflorescence of 2 greenish white flowers upon an elongate common peduncle, the associated tendril terminal; peduncle 0.5-4.5 cm. long; pedicels 1.5-4.0 cm. long, jointed somewhat above the middle, the bracts minutely setose, deciduous. Flowers 1.5-4.0 cm. in diameter; sepals oblong, about 0.7-1.5 cm. long, not corniculate; petals narrowly oblong, 0.5-1.0 cm. long; fila-ments of the corona in a single series, filiform, 3-5 mm. long. Berry subglobose to ovoid, 3-6 cm. long, greenish yellow.
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