Scandent shrub up to 1·5 m. tall, glabrous; bark of young and old branches with sparse lenticels. Leaf-lamina 7–12 × 3–4 cm., elliptic or oblong, glabrous on both surfaces, obtuse or acute or shortly caudate at the apex, rounded, subrounded or cuneate at the base; lateral nerves 5–7 pairs, slightly impressed above, prominent below; petiole 4–10 mm. long, pubescent or glabrous; stipules c. 2 mm. long, linear, early deciduous. Cymes c. 1·5 cm. long, axillary; peduncle c. 5 mm. long (up to 2 cm. long in the type), velutinous; pedicels c. 1·5 mm. long. Sepals c. 3 mm. long, ovate, pubescent. Petals c. 4 mm. long, obovate, apex entire, obtuse, glabrous. Stamens adnate to the petals at the base. Ovary subglobose, velutinous; style c. 2·5 mm. long, glabrous, shortly 3-lobed. Fruit asymmetric, laterally rostrate, 2 cm. long (type), sericeous-velutinous.
