Copyright 1998-2017 Yoshiaki Yoneda
Collected at Iriomote Island, in southwestern Japan.  Flowers white (slide 008). Sepals surround a capsule, swell enormously and change into a balloon-like fruit (slide 009).  Sepals open when this fruit becomes ripe.  We can see the capsule inside (slide 010).  This genus belongs to Merremioids.   
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