Shrubs or trees. Leaves-usually coriaceous, petiolate; stipules connate at the base. Inflorescences terminal, the staminate flowers several, fasciculate, the pis-tillate flowers usually solitary.-Flowers dioeci-ous, usually sessile; hypanthium usually globose; calyx short or tubular, truncate or dentate; corolla tube salver-form, stiffly carnose, the lobes contorted, imbricate; stamens 4-8, the anthers linear; ovary 2-8-celled, the ovules few to numerous. Fruits baccate, 2-8-celled, the placentas pulpy, the seeds several, large, compressed.
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