Compilation
Cyrtonema divergens

Glabrous to densely often glandular-hairy perennial herb climbing or trailing to 2 m., all parts giving out an offensive odour when crushed; stem becoming thickened at the base when older, arising from a tuberous root-stock. Leaf-blade sagittate, hastate, deltoid, orbicular-cordate, ovate-cordate or pentagonal in outline, ± scabrid, hairy (sometimes densely so, especially beneath), 19–93 mm. long, 13–92 mm. broad, unlobed or palmately 3(–5)-lobed; lobes subtriangular, not or rarely narrowed below; petiole 5–50 mm. long. Tendrils simple. Monoecious. Male flowers 4–11 (rarely fewer) in rather lax fascicles; peduncle filiform, 2–25 mm. long; pedicels filiform, 2–10 mm. long; receptacle-tube campanulate, simply hairy or glandular-hairy, ± 2 mm. long; lobes filiform, 1–2 mm. long; petals yellow, 3.5–4 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. broad; stamens 3; connectives produced dorsally upwards. Female flowers solitary or paired on 2–5 mm. long stalks, sometimes coaxillary with ♂; ovary beaked, 7–9 mm. long, 2.5–3 mm. across, densely glandular-hairy; receptacle-tube campanulate, simply hairy or glandular-hairy, ± 2 mm. long; lobes subulate, 1–2 mm. long; petals ± 4–5 mm. long and 2 mm. broad. Fruits on 1–14 mm. long stalks, pyriform, usually ± (often long-) beaked, hairy, scarlet, fleshy, 9–27 mm. long, 6–13 mm. across. Seeds (fig. 23/11, p. 132) pyriform, subcompressed and narrower at the apex, inflated below, smooth, when fresh with a narrow gelatinous marginal wing, 4–6 × 2–4 × 1.5–2 mm.