Liana up to 18 m, rarely erect shrub or small tree up to 10 m. Stipules triangular, c. 0.5 mm long. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, elliptic-or ovate-oblong, sometimes ovate or elliptic, 6.5-26.5 by 3-13 cm (in sterile material up to 32 by 14 cm); base cuneate, or obtuse; apex acuminate, cuspidate; margin remotely, slightly crenulate; nerves 6-11 pairs; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm. Inflorescences cymose, axillary, sometimes ramiflorous, 1-2 in a leaf axil, 1-3 cm long, rarely crowded on a young shoot with reduced leaves or bracts simulating a thyrsiform inflorescence up to 8-15 cm long. Peduncle 0-1½ cm. Bracts deltoid, c. 0.75 mm long. Pedicels 4.5-12 mm. Flowers yellowish green, slightly concave at the base, floral parts containing sulphur-like particles. Calyx lobes deltoid or suborbicular, ¾-1 mm long, obtuse, margin slightly erose, laciniate or short-fimbriate. Petals broad-elliptic,-ovate, obovate, or oblong, 2.5-4.5 by 1½-2.75 mm, obtuse or rounded, entire. Disk annular-pulvinate, 0.5-1 mm high, c. 1.25 mm diam., usually covered with fine papillae, truncate at the apex, the tissue opposite the calyx lobes slightly extended outward and downward. Stamens 3, 1-1.5 mm; anthers ± transversely dehiscent. Pistil 0.75-1 mm emerging from the disk. Ovary 3-celled. Ovules 2(-3) in each cell, attached at the upper inner angle. Fruit subglobose, 2-3 cm ø. Seed 1, subglobose, 1⅓-2 cm ø.
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A creeper. It grows 18 m long. It can sometimes be an erect shrub. The fruit is a flattened round shape. It is 2-3 cm long. It has one seed in a stone. The flowers have yellow particles. The fruit are oval and reddish-orange. They are 2-3 cm across. The seeds are round and have yellow tufts.
Uses. The plant under the name 'akar beting'' (SF 17583, SING) was identified as Hippocratea sp. by BURKILL & HANIFF ( BURKILL & HANIFF Gard. Bull. S.S. 6 1930 184 ). It is said to be used for cracked lips. An extract from the root with water is drunk (cf. BURKILL Dict. 1935 1177 ).
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