Connarus semidecandrus Jack. in Mal. Misc. 2: 39. 1822; Hook.f., Fl. Brit India 2: 52. 1876; Leenh. in Fl. Males. Ser. 1. 5: 534. 1958. C. gibbosus Wallich ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 52. 1876 p.p. C. griffithii Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 52. 1876. C. ellipticus King in J. As. Soc. Bengal 66: 7. 1897.

Lianas or large scandent shrubs; young branchlets rusty puberulous, verrucose-lenticellate on maturity. Leaves 1 - 3-jugate; leaflets elliptic to lanceolate, 4 - 25 x 2 - 9 cm, base cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse to obtusely acuminate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous or pubescent beneath on midrib and main nerves; nerves 4 - 12 pairs; petiolules 2.5 - 7.5 mm long. Panicles terminal, broad, up to 25 cm long, rusty pubescent, many-flowered; bracts minute. Sepals ovate-elliptic, 2 - 4 mm long, acute or obtuse, outer surface pubescent, inner surface glabrous. Petals lanceolate to linear, 3 - 8 mm long, obtuse, outer surface glabrous, sparsely glandular-pubescent within. Stamens united at the base, inner whorl steri1e or all fertile, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Follicles oblique-pyriform to semi-ellipsoid, compressed, 1.5 - 3.75 x 1 - 2 cm; stipe shortly stalked indistinctly beaked; pericarp thin, outer surface rusty pubescent, brownish, woolly pubescent within.

Fl. & Fr. : Jan. - July.

Distrib. India : Andaman & Nicobar islands.

Thailand, Indo-China and Malesia.