A large, scandent shrub. Leaves opposite, oblong or obovate. Flowers in short,axillary and terminal drooping racemes, white first and then turning to rosy or scarlet,with a long narrow tube. Fruits oblong, with sharp angles, glabrous, black, one seeded.(India) A woody climber, young branchlets tomentosa to sparsely pubescent; leaves 5-18.5cmx 2.5-9cm; upper receptacle 5-8cm long, calyx lobes deltoid to triangular, 1-2mmlong, petals 10-20mm long; fruit 2.5-4cm x 0.7-1.3cm (Indonesia) A woody climber; young branchlets tomentose to sparsely pubescent; leaves 5-18.5cm x 2.5-9cm; upper receptacle 5-8cm long, calyx lobes deltoid to triangular;fruit 2.5-4cm x 0.7-1.3cm (Philippines) Scandent woody shrub, much-branched, spreading. Leaves opposite, papyraceous,round or ovate al the base; apex pointed. Inflorescence in dense axillary and terminalspike; flowers with long corolla-tube, white, turning red later on, fragrant. Fruitrhomboidal, 5-angled, dark brown (Vietnam)