Artabotrys cubittii Chatterjee in J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 19: 1. 1940.

Bushy climbers, 2 - 2.5 m long; branchlets rufous-tomentose when young, glabrous with age. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, narrow at base, acute or shortly acuminate at apex, 10 - 24 x 4 - 8 cm, hispid to densely rufous-hispid when young, glabrous with age; petioles 3 - 7 mm long. Flowers 1 - 4 fascicled on the hooked peduncle at the middle and apex; peduncle somewhat flat, appressed rufous-pubescent; pedicels 8 - 15 cm long; bracts basal, pubescent. Sepals 3, united at base, free at tips, ovate, long-acuminate, 7 - 10 mm long, revolute, rufous-hispid on both sides. Petals 6 (3 + 3), clawed, 18 - 25 x 7 - 10 mm; limb ovate-lanceolate, concave at base, obtuse at apex, slightly tomentose on both surfaces, densely tomentose at base outside. Stamens numerous, oblong-cuneate, ca 2 mm long; connectives broad, flattened, acute at apex. Carpels 12, pyramidal-ovoid, ca 4 mm long, acute at apex; style constricted at base; stigma entire. Ripe carpels 6 - 7, ovoid, narrowed at both ends, shortly beaked at tip, 3 - 3.5 x 1 - 1.5 cm; stalks short. Seeds 1 - 2, elliptic, plano-convex, 1.5 - 1.7 cm; testa stoney.

Fl. March; Fr. July.

Distrib. India: Assam, Manipur and Meghalaya.

Myanmar.