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Glabrous shrub, small tree or liane, 1–4(–25) m. in height.. Latex threads absent.. Stems subterete, often with raised lines when young, green, becoming greyish or purplish, sometimes rough with raised lenticels.. Leaves opposite (or alternate on climbing shoots), petiolate; petiole (2–)4–6(–9) mm. long; blade papery or subcoriaceous, dark green and somewhat glossy, slightly paler beneath, lanceolate, oblong or elliptic, (4–)5–8.5(–12.3) cm. long, (1.5–)2–4(–4.8) cm. wide, acute or somewhat acuminate, cuneate or rarely rounded at base; veins finely reticulate, ± prominent; margin entire or obscurely and remotely serrate, occasionally more strongly serrate.. Inflorescence glabrous, consisting of axillary sessile fascicles of 1–5(–8) flowers; bracts ovate, 0.5–1 mm. long, denticulate or fimbriolate, persistent; pedicels 3–7(–10) mm. long, articulated at the base.. Buds broadly ovoid-conical, 1.5–2.5(–3) mm. long.. Flowers yellow or greenish, 5–7(–8) mm. in diameter.. Sepals free, subequal, broadly ovate or semicircular, ± 0.5–1 mm. long, rounded, denticulate or fimbriolate.. Petals oblong, ovate-elliptic to oblong-obovate, shortly clawed, 2–3.5 mm. long, rounded, entire or erose.. Disc ± a thick fleshy pad with 5 downward-directed lobes, 1.5–2.6 mm. in diameter.. Stamens with slender filaments 1–1.5 mm. long, slightly widened at the base.. Ovary conical or ovoid, sometimes slightly 3-lobed; style narrowly pyramidal; stigma entire; ovules 2 per locule.. Fruit orange or reddish, globose, 1–2.2(–2.9) cm. in diameter, smooth.. Fig. 8/5, p. 35.
A creeper or liane. Although often only 4 m long it can grow 25 m long. The stem often has 2 raised lines. The leaves are opposite or alternate on climbing shoots. The fruit has a sweet edible pulp. The leaf is dark green but more pale underneath. They are 5-10 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. They are narrowly sword shaped and taper to the tip. The flowers are in groups of 1-5 in the axils of leaves. They are 5-7 mm across and contain both sexes. The sepals are green with red edges and the petals are yellowish. The fruit are orange to red. They are round and 1-2 cm across. There are 1-3 seeds.
Leaves opposite or alternate (on climbing shoots), petiolate; lamina dark green, paler below, glossy on both surfaces, 5–10·2(12·3) × (1·7)2·2–4(4·8) cm., lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to ovate, acute or acutely to subobtusely acuminate at the apex, with margin entire or shallowly rounded-denticulate, cuneate at the base, chartaceous to softly coriaceous, with (7)9–11 lateral nerves and densely reticulate venation varying in prominence, more prominent below; petiole (3)4–6(8) mm. long, with margins straight or slightly undulating; stipules absent.
Frutex glaberrimus ramis virgatis, exilibus, teretibus, laxeque frondosis. Folia oblonga v. oblongo-lanceolata, acute acuminata, basi breviter cuneata aut rotundata, 8-10 cm longa, tenuia, utrinque prominenti-venulosa, et in toto ambilu argute serrulata, petiolo 6-8 mm longo nituntur. Anthemia (glomera assueta) sessilia floribus paucis vulgo struuntur qui pedicello semi-centimetrum circiter longo singulatim fulti, fabricam solitam ostendunt.
Shrub or small tree or liane, 1–4(25) m. high, without latex, glabrous; stems with paired raised lines or rarely subterete, olive-green and smooth or slightly rugulose at first, becoming terete, purplish to grey-brown or brown and smooth or with ± prominent lenticels.
Flowers 1–5(8), axillary, in sessile fascicles, bisexual, 5–7 mm. in diam.; buds 1·5–2·5(3) mm. long, broadly ovoid; pedicels 3–10 mm. long, smooth, articulated at the base.
Petals yellow or greenish-yellow, 2–3 mm. long, oblong to elliptic or ovate and slightly unguiculate, rounded, entire or with margin partly ciliolate or denticulate.
Sepals pale green with paler or reddish denticulate or ciliolate margin, c. 1 mm. long, subequal, semicircular, rounded, free.
Disk greenish-yellow, cylindric or convex-cylindric, usually without depressions, surrounding or enveloping the ovary.
Fruit orange to orange-red, globose even when immature, 1·2–2(2·9) cm. in diam., smooth, 1(2–3)-seeded.
Ovary subglobose or 3-lobed, with style narrowly pyramidal; stigma entire; ovules 2 per loculus.
Stamens 3, with filaments slender; anthers dehiscing by 2 oblique clefts confluent at the apex.
