Flora of New Zealand Series

Evergreen lianes. Lvs with 3 leaflets, or 2 leaflets and a terminal branched tendril; leaflets entire. Fls in terminal racemes or panicles. Calyx 5-lobed, 5-toothed, or truncate at apex. Corolla funnelform or tubular-funnelform, slightly 2-lipped, purple, crimson, pink or white. Stamens 4. Ovary 2-locular, white-villous. Capsule ellipsoid; septum flat. Seeds thin, with hyaline wing.

c. 9 spp., C. America, W. Indies. Naturalised sp. 1.