Shrubs or small trees. Leaves usually lanceolate, opposite; stipules free, sub-ulate acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, the flowers few, congested into a small head at the end of the peduncle. Flowers with the hypanthium some-what coherent, the calycine cup truncate, the teeth absent or scarcely visible, funnelform or U-shaped, the lobes usually 5, valvate; ovary 4-celled, with an ascending, solitary ovule in each cell. Fruits sessile, aggregate, but virtually free at maturity, each fruitlet fleshy, drupaceous, with 4 pyrenes, each pyrene un-equally 2-locellate, the ventral part empty; seeds exalbuminous.
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