A climbing shrub; branchlets terete, glabrous, woody, pale brown. Leaves ovate-elliptic, obtuse, shortly acuminate, coriaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, rounded at the base, 3–5 in. long, 2–2 3/4 in. broad; petiole 1/2–1 in. long. Flowers crowded in the leaf-axils; peduncle none; pedicels short, up to 6 lin. long, densely hoary, pubescent, like the bracteoles and calyx, with a pair of small opposite ovate-elliptic, concave bracteoles at the middle about 1 lin. long. Outermost sepal sub-coriaceous, orbicular, with subcordate base, 2 1/2 lin. long, the second similar but rather narrower, the 3 inner suborbicular, 2 lin. long, much thinner, the 2 outer enlarging in the fruit as in P. africana. Corolla 3/4–1 in. long; tube campanulate; lobes spreading, ovate, 4 lin. long. Stamens included in the corolla-tube; filaments glabrous. Style unequally bifid above the middle. Fruit as in P. africana .
