Straggling woody climbers up to 3 m high, glabrous. Leaves 4-8 cm long, 0-7-3 cm broad, lanceolate to broadly elliptic above the narrow petiole, acute or obtuse, mucronu-latc. glabrous, fleshy, the margin often revolutc in dried specimens, minutely stipuÂlate. Racemes terminal, leafless, short and corymbose in flower, laxer in fruit, or rarely intercalary. Pedicels about 1 cm long in flower. 1-2-2 cm long in fruit, erect or ascending, subtended by 2 minute bracts. Sepals 4 • 8-6 • 5 mm long, 1 • 5-3 mm broad; outer 2 narrowly oblong, cucullate; inner 2 ovate with broad membranous margins. Petals 8-5-14 mm long, 3-8 mm broad, obovate-oblong to circular-obovate, clawed. Filaments 3-3-8 mm and 3-8-4-8 mm long, stout. Anthers 2 mm long. Ovary shortly stipitate, obovate or broadly oblong; style slender, long; stigma capitate; ovules 2. Fruits 2-5-4 cm long, 0-8-1-3 cm broad, elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, sometimes obÂlique, shortly stipitate, the valves flat, 1-nerved, net-veined; style 2-5-6 mm long, tapering. Seeds 3-5-5 X 4-6-5 mm, subcir-cular, narrowly margined. Fig. 9 : 5.
