Parvatia brunoniana Decaisne in Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 1: 190, t. 12A. 1839; Hook. f. & Thomson in Fl. Brit. India 1: 108. 1872. Stauntonia brunoniana Wallich [Cat. 4952. 1824, nom. nud.] ex Hemsley in Hook. lc. Pl. t. 2843. 1907.

Large evergreen climbing shrubs; bark of young branches smooth, of old branches corky. Leaves alternate, pinnately compound, 3-foliolate; petioles 3 - 12 cm long; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or rarely obtuse at apex, entire and slightly revolute along margins, 5 - 12 x 2 - 4 cm, glabrous, shiny above, pale and often glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 6 - 8 pairs; petiolule of middle leaflet longer, 1 - 3 cm long. Racemes axillary, solitary or 2 - 4 fascicled together on scaly tubercles; peduncles rigid, slender, 5 - 10 cm long; bracteoles basal, minute, linear; pedicels ca 2 mm long. Flowers 5 - 10 mm across, greenish-yellow. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, 10 - 12 x 2 - 3 mm. Petals lanceolate, much smaller than sepals, ca 2 x 0.5 - 1 mm. Mille flowers: Stamens 6, monadelphous; staminal column ca 1.5 mm long; anthers 2 - 2.5 mm long, oblong, apiculate; pistillodes 3, minute. Female flowers: Staminodes 6, ca 1 mm long; carpels 3, free, oblong, 2.5 - 3 mm long, granulate, glabrous, with sessile stigma, one or all maturing into separate diverging fruitlets. Fruitlets oblong or oblong-ovoid. Seeds numerous, trigonous, embedded in yellow pulp, black.

Fl. Aug. - Oct.; Fr. Feb. - June.

Distrib. India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya.

Bangladesh.