Podranea

Scrambling shrubs or subshrubs, almost glabrous; branchlets terete to 4-angled, lenticelled. Leaves imparipinnately compound, without tendrils, opposite, petiolate; leaflets elliptic-ovate, entire or remotely toothed; pseudostipules 0. Flowers large, in terminal panicles. Calyx cupular-campanulate, evenly 5-lobed, inflated; tube ridged, glabrous; lobes almost as long as tube, ovate, apiculate, ciliate. Corolla somewhat bilabiate and vertically compressed, pink or lilac; tube campanulate above a short cylindrical base, glabrous outside, glandular within on lower part, with stalked hairs, pilose in throat; lobes obovate. Stamens 4, didynamous, arising at top of narrow portion of corolla tube, included; filaments subterete, with stalked glands on basal part; anthers with 2 thecae connate only at apex, straight, divaricate when mature; staminode 1. Nectary thick, saucer-shaped, somewhat crenate. Ovary linear, +/- cylindrical, tapering into style, glabrous, bilocular; ovules many, in 6-8 rows per locule; style semiterete, slightly exserted; stigma with two +/- oval lobes. Fruit a long, narrow, linear, straight capsule, with acute apex, somewhat flattened, leathery, smooth, dehiscing perpendicularly to septum. Seeds with 2 +/- rectangular wings; testa membranous.