Trailing or climbing herb; stems glabrous or ± hispid-hairy.. Leaf-blade broadly reniform-cordate in outline, subscabrid-punctate or hispid above, ± hairy on the nerves beneath, sinuate-toothed, 61–95 mm. long, 92–140 mm. broad, unlobed or palmately 3–5-lobed to about two-thirds; lobes broadly ovate, narrowed below, sometimes obscurely 3-lobulate, apiculate; petiole ± hispid, 18–48 mm. long.. Probracts 3–4 mm. long, 2–3 mm. broad.. Male flowers 4–14 in 75–190 mm. long racemes; peduncle 36–65 mm. long; pedicels 1–10 mm. long; bracts ovate to spathulate, entire or toothed, ± cucullate, 1.5–11 mm. long, 1–2 mm. broad; receptacle-tube obconic-cylindrical, slightly bulbous at the base, crisped-hairy, 12–16 mm. long; lobes lanceolate, 4–4.5 mm. long; petals yellow with green veins, 20–23 mm. long, 14–19 mm. broad.. Female flowers subsessile (stalks ± 2 mm. long); ovary shortly hairy, 14 mm. long, 2 mm. across.. Fruit on a ± 8 mm. long stalk, ellipsoid, orange when ripe, shortly and sparsely adpressed-hairy, 65–85 mm. long, 23–35 mm. across.. Seeds lenticular, 7.5 × 4 × 2 mm.. Fig. 11/8, p. 80.
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