a shrub climbing over trees; branches terete, the youngest parts firmly and densely fulvous-tomentose, soon glabrescent, at length dull brown or reddish-brown with whitish lenticels; leaves obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, abruptly acuminate, acute at the base, 3–3 1/2 in. long, 1–1 1/2 in. broad, firmly membranous, rusty-tomentellous in the very young bud, soon glabrous; secondary nerves 3–4 on each side, very oblique; petiole 2–2 1/2 lin. long; flowers in numerous axillary minutely fulvous-tomentellous racemes or panicles, about 1 in. long and borne on usually very short peduncles; bracts ovate-lanceolate, small, early deciduous; pedicels very short; calyx 1 lin. long, finely fulvous-tomentose; sepals ovate, subacute; corolla greenish, minutely tomentellous without, very slender, almost subulate in bud; tube almost 1 1/2 lin. long; lobes linear, 1 1/2 lin. long; follicles cylindric, divaricate, 6–7 in. long, 3 lin. in diam., delicately tomentellous, at length glabrescent; seeds oblong-linear, 6–7 lin. long; coma 1 1/2 in. long. null
