Liana or arching shrub. Petioles 0.5-2 cm long; blades elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acute and falcate at apex, obtuse at base, 6-14 cm long, 3-7.5 cm wide, +/- glabrous, entire, often drying blackish. Cymes dense, scorpioid; flowers 5-parted, sessile; sepals slightly connate at base, subulate, 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; corolla white, the tube ca 5 mm long, the lobes 1.5-2 mm long; stamens nearly sessile, attached ca one-third of the length of corolla tube; anthers ca 1.5 mm long; ovary ovoid; stigma 1, sessile, conical. Fruits globose, 5-6 mm diam, white at maturity, containing 4 nutlets; nutlets brown, ca 4 mm long. Croat 9560.