Scandent shrub or small tree, sometimes a big climber. Twigs nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-6-jugate, glabrous, leaflets often alternating; lateral petiolules 2-3 mm long. Leaflets oblong-ovate (terminal ones more elliptic), 5-8 by 1.5-3 cm, stiff-chartaceous, slightly glaucous-waxy beneath; the base in lateral leaflets slightly oblique, broadly cuneate, somewhat decurrent, in terminal ones equilateral and more acute; apex gradually caudate-acuminate, blunt; nerves 4-6 pairs, patent (at least the basal ones), straight to curved, distinctly looped and joined (sometimes with the exception of the basal ones), not very conspicuous. Inflorescences axillary, glabrous, in fascicles of 4-5 axes, which are all nearly of the same length (up to c. 10 cm), laxly paniculate in the lower part, pseudo-racemose with long-stalked flowers in the upper. Calyx 3 mm high, thinly pubescent outside. Corolla 8 mm long. Pistils glabrous. Fruits elliptic-ovoid, acute, straight, 2.5-3 by 1 cm.
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