High climbing vines; stems subquadrangular, drying black, spar- ingly and minutely strigose, the hairs upwardly curved, 0.25 mm. long; internodes 10 to 11 cm. long; leaf blades elliptic-ovate, 5.5 to 8.5 cm. long, 3.3 to 5.3 cm. wide, short-acuminate and apiculate at tip, rounded at base, rather firm, drying black above and dark olive-brown beneath, glabrous or the costa of the undersurface bearing a few minute hairs, the costa and lateral veins (3 pairs) obscure above, more prominent beneath; petioles 1.5 to 2 cm. long, glabrous or sparingly hirsute, the hairs 0.25 mm. long; flowers about 4, borne on short flattened axillary spurs; pedicels slender, 1 to 1.5 cm. long, subquadrate, glabrous or bearing a few minute hairs; bracts thick, ovate, blackened, 5 to 6 mm. long, 3.5 to 4 mm. wide, acute, rounded at base, sparingly and minutely appressed-hirsute, the hairs about 0.25 mm. long; corolla greenish white (immature), 2 mm. long, the lobes rounded, 0.5 mm. long and 0.75 mm. wide; ovary glabrous; fruit not seen. Type in the herbarium of the Riksmuseet, Stockholm, collected in thick forest in the region of Mount Chapón, Department of Boyacá, Colombia, "altitude 3,600 feet," June 29, 1932, by A. E. Lawrance (No. 264).