A herbaceous climber or trailer to 6 m long, recorded from lowland rainforest of Sierra Leone to W Cameroons and Fernando Po, and occurring in Cameroun, Central and East Africa.A cold infusion of the plant is used in parts of Nigeria and W Cameroons for venereal diseases, taken internally; the powdered dried leaves are applied as a dressing for chancre, etc. In Cameroons, also (fide Santesson) the juice of the boiled leaves, mixed with a few drops of water is an ear-instillation for ear-ache (1).The Akyem of Ghana take the contents of a fruit mixed with fresh lime juice and apply it with a feather to the umbilical cord, tied near the body with a strand of pineapple or plantain fibre, of a new-born baby. The application is repeated till the cord falls off (2).