Climber. Twigs glabrous, branchlets yellowish brown, fairly scabrous by scattered small lenticels. Leaves ovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 6½-14 by 2-7.5 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, glabrous, base rounded to acute, attenuate, apex broadly rounded, more or less abruptly acuminate, acumen short and blunt; 5-plinerved, inner nerves diverging slightly above the base, nearly as strong as the midrib, veins mainly transverse, minute and dense, prominulous on both sides; petiole 6-7 mm. Inflorescences axillary and terminal, 2-8 cm long, laxly branched to fairly compact, few-to many-flowered, minutely tomentose, glabrescent. Calyx 1-2 mm, sepals ovate, blunt, inside glabrous. Corolla 8-10 mm, tube 3 mm, inside densely woolly the basal part of the tube excepted. Stamens inserted in the mouth, filaments 2.5-4 mm, glabrous, anthers lanceolate, 1.25 mm, minutely apiculate, barbate or not. Pistil 9 mm long, ovary and at least the basal half of the style shaggy hairy. Fruits few, globular, 5 cm ø, scabrous. Seeds probably many.
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