cum cortice nunc nigro nunc fusco-cinereo, tenui, glabro 
levique. Folia exstipulata, magnopere coriacea, elliptica, 
apice breviter apiculata vel subacuminata, basi rotundata 
(numquam cordata), margine valde revoluta, 13-16 em. 
longa, 6-8 cm. lata, robustius petiolata (petiolis fusco- 
nigris, plerumque 2-8 cm. longis), nervis lateralibus quat- 
tuor, supra vivo cyaneo-viridia et nitidissima (siccitate 
straminea), cum nervis non elevatis, superficie oculo ar- 
mato minutissime tessellata, subtus vivo pallide viridia, 
cum nervis omnibus prominenter elevatis, subdense sed 
minute albido-tomentulosa. Flores in racemis brevissi- 
mis, congestis, paucifloris et axillaribus, usque ad 8 cm. 
longi, pedunculo glabro gracili, usque ad 2 cm. longo. 
Perianthi pars basalis valde ovoideo-dilatata, 18 mm. 
longa, 10-11 mm. in diametro, extus glabra vel glabres- 
cens et flavo-brunnea vel pallide purpurea; tubus obcon- 
icus, purpureo-venosus, stramineus vel flavo-brunneus, 
usque ad 8 cm. longus, basi 4 mm. sed apice 20 mm. in 
diametro, intus purpureo-papillosus, in os parvum con- 
strictus; limbus altero latere expansus, altero truncatus, 
membranaceus, intus atrosanguineus, extus basi purpur- 
eus et prope apicem fusco-viridis, ovalis, 42 mm. longus, 
20 mm. latus, ecaudatus, apice usque ad 2 mm. incisus, 
vivo subcucullatus, omnino glaber. Columna genitalis 
5 mm. longa, apice 2.5 mm. in diametro, breviter stipi- 
tata, per dimidium sex-divisa, lobis pseudostylinis acutis. 
Stamina sex in serie unica, columnae adnata, antheris lin- 
earibus, usque ad 2.2 mm. longis, longitudinaliter de- 
hiscentibus. Fructus adhue ignotus. 
A very robust vine. Stem twining, elongate, little 
branched. Branches twining, terete, striolate ; bark either 
black or brownish grey, thin, glabrous, smooth. Leaves 
without stipules, extremely coriaceous, elliptic, apically 
short-apiculate or subacuminate, basally rounded (never 
cordate), the margin strongly revolute, 13-16 cm. long, 
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