Medium-sized tree. Leaves opposite or subopposite, coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescence an axillary, peduncled, false-umbel. Bracts 0? Flowers, long-pedicelled. Calyx cupular, divided to about half-way; segments valvate, slightly reduplicate, equal, setulose within. Corolla represented by a low, entire, slightly fleshy annulus. Stamens 10-15; filaments very short and slender; anthers hippocrepiform. Ovary sessile, ovoid, 3-5-locular, densely setulose. Style elongate, filiform, wiry, contorted, pilose; stigma capitate. Fruit a 1-seeded, rather thin-walled, velutinous, indehiscent, subglobose capsule. Seed large; testa coriaceous, roughened; funicle and aril not seen.
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