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P.peepuloides

  Habit         :A climber with free spreading slender branches. Glabrous, branches rigid terete often warted.
  Leaves     :Membranous, shortly petioled, very uniform oblong linear- or ovate-oblong caudate- acuminate, base rounded 3-5-nerved nearly to the tip, 5 - 12.5 by 2.5 - 5 cm., variable in breadth, sometimes narrowed to a minutely cordate base; petiole of upper leaves 0.31 - 0.63 cm., of lower rarely 1.25 cm.
  Spikes      :Male spikes slender, 5 - 7.5 cm., clothed with peltate bracts; stamens 2-4; female 1.25 - 1.67 cm., cylindric longer than their peduncle.
  Fruits        :Minute and 0.21 cm. diam.