Climbing shrub to 3 m. or more, or herb with rather slender brownish-pubescent stems.. Leaf-blades oblong or elliptic-oblong, 4.5–13 cm. long, 1.2–7 cm. wide, acute, acuminate or rarely ± obtuse at the apex, cuneate to rounded at the base, sparsely pubescent and micro-scabridulous above, pubescent on the nerves beneath; petiole 0.5–2.2 cm. long, pubescent.. Inflorescences terminal, dichotomously cymose, the branches scorpioid; primary branches 3.5–8 cm. long, secondary 0.7–3 cm. long, pubescent; true pedicels 0.25–1 mm. long.. Calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 1.8–2.5 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide, acute, pubescent.. Corolla white, salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, 8–8.5 mm. long, 0.8–1.3 mm. wide, densely pubescent; limb 5 mm. wide, the lobes 1.5–1.7 mm. long, 2–2.2 mm. wide.. Ovary conical, 0.8 mm. long, 0.6 mm. wide, truncate; style 1 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, the stigmatic part slightly thickened, 10-striate.. Fruit ? ± fleshy, ovoid, 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, glabrous; exocarp ± fleshy, minutely rugulose; endocarp breaking into 2, 2-seeded nutlets, each with additional empty cavities.. Fig. 13.
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