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Climber. Leaves with a strong odour, with (1—)3—4 pairs of leaflets; petiole 4-5 cm. Leaflets chartaceous, ovate, elliptic, 4-12½ by 2¼-6 cm, often with hairy domatia; base obtuse, sometimes cuneate, rarely subcordate; apex acuminate; nerves 5-7 pairs, veins reticulate; petiolules ½-l cm. Panicles up to 37 cm long, puberulous; floral bracts lanceolate, ⅔-¾ mm long; pedicels ⅔-1½ mm, articulate. Flowers cream coloured. Calyx lobes deltoid, ½ mm long. Petals ovate, 1¼-2 by ¾-1¼ mm. Stamens ¾-1 mm; anthers c. ⅓ mm long; staminodes in ♀ ⅔ mm. Disk c. 1 mm ø. Ovary subglobose, ⅔ mm ø. Sterile pistil in ♂ small, c. ½ mm long. Drupes broadly ellipsoid, 1¼-1½ by c. 4/5 cm, slightly oblique, flesh full of dark-brown sap (even in dried drupes). Seed subreniform, c. 1¼ by ⅔ cm (young seed seemingly winged).
