Medium-sized trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, acuminate, entire. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal, slender, copiously and widely branched thyrses. Bracts subtending main branches of inflorescence often carried up the branch for a short distance. Bracteoles 0. Pedicels articulate at base. Calyx widely cupular, segments 5, ovate-deltoid, imbricate. Petals 10, in pairs alternating with the calyx-segments, narrowly oblong, setulose. Stamens 10, alternating with the petals; filaments very short; anthers hippocrepiform. Ovary 3-4-locular, cells with 1 ovule. Style elongate, filiform, contorted; stigma capitate; 'parastyles' 3-6, short, corniform, erect-divaricate. Fruit a 2-seeded, thin-walled, velutinous, indehiscent (?), shortly stipitate, long-beaked capsule. Seed large, testa thinly coriaceous, smooth, funicle thickened but not expanded into an aril.
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